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The John Batchelor Show

The John Batchelor Show is a breaking-news program that focusses on global politics, economics, war-fighting, hard sciences, space exploration, literature and whimsy. Four hours a night, seven days a week; most rigorous news analysis in the New World; followed daily in 192 countries.

Sep 15 2019

Photo: Berlin- the Capture and Aftermath of War 1945-1947An aerial (oblique) photograph taken from a De Havilland Mosquito of the RAF Film and Photographic Unit showing badly damaged buildings in the area between Friedrich Hain and Lichtenberg, Berlin.Date | between 1945 and 1947 Source | http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//9/media-9014/large.jpg | This is photograph C 5284 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. | Author | Royal Air Force official photographerPermission(Reusing this file) | This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation.Part of | Air Ministry Second World War Official CollectionSubjects | Associated placesBerlin, GermanyAssociated eventsBattle of Berlin 1945, Germany, Second World WarAssociated themesGerman Home Front 1939-1945Associated keywordsBomb Damage, Destruction, Reconnaissancehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow
A Higher Call: 4 of 4: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Adam Makos (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher)
https://www.amazon.com/Higher-Call-Incredible-Chivalry-War-Torn/dp/B00BH59WVK/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=
Four days before Christmas in 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a 21-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bomber's tail - a German Messerschmitt fighter. Worse, the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber with the squeeze of a trigger. What happened next would defy imagination and later be called the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.
This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that day - the American - Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17 - and the German - Second Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.
A Higher Call follows both Charlie and Franz's harrowing missions. Charlie would face takeoffs in English fog over the flaming wreckage of his buddies' planes, flak bursts so close they would light his cockpit, and packs of enemy fighters that would circle his plane like sharks. Franz would face sandstorms in the desert, a crash alone at sea, and the spectacle of one thousand bombers, each with eleven guns, waiting for his attack.
Ultimately, Charlie and Franz would stare across the frozen skies at one another. What happened between them, the American Eighth Air Force would later classify as top secret. It was an act that Franz could never mention without facing a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for 40 years until, as old men, they would search for one another, a last mission that could change their lives forever....more

Sep 15 2019

Photo: Destroyed Luftwaffe Fw 190, 1945USAAF - United States Air Force Historical Research Agency via Cees Steijger (1991), "A History of USAFE", Voyageur, ISBN: 1853100757
Destroyed German Luftwaffe Focke-Wulf Fw 190A fighter (s/n 171568?), 1945.
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A Higher Call: 3 of 4: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Adam Makos (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher)
https://www.amazon.com/Higher-Call-Incredible-Chivalry-War-Torn/dp/B00BH59WVK/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=
Four days before Christmas in 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a 21-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bomber's tail - a German Messerschmitt fighter. Worse, the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber with the squeeze of a trigger. What happened next would defy imagination and later be called the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.
This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that day - the American - Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17 - and the German - Second Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.
A Higher Call follows both Charlie and Franz's harrowing missions. Charlie would face takeoffs in English fog over the flaming wreckage of his buddies' planes, flak bursts so close they would light his cockpit, and packs of enemy fighters that would circle his plane like sharks. Franz would face sandstorms in the desert, a crash alone at sea, and the spectacle of one thousand bombers, each with eleven guns, waiting for his attack.
Ultimately, Charlie and Franz would stare across the frozen skies at one another. What happened between them, the American Eighth Air Force would later classify as top secret. It was an act that Franz could never mention without facing a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for 40 years until, as old men, they would search for one another, a last mission that could change their lives forever....more

Sep 15 2019

Photo: B-17 Flying Fortresses from the 398th Bombardment Group fly a bombing run to Neumünster, Germany, on 13 April 1945. On 8 May, Germany surrendered, and Victory in Europe Day was declared.Unknown - http://www.bands.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/040607-F-0000S-004.jpg
OVER GERMANY -- B-17 Flying Fortresses from the 398th Bombardment Group fly a bombing run to Neumunster, Germany, on April 13, 1945, less than one month before the German surrender on May 8.
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A Higher Call: 2 of 4: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Adam Makos (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher)
https://www.amazon.com/Higher-Call-Incredible-Chivalry-War-Torn/dp/B00BH59WVK/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=
Four days before Christmas in 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a 21-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bomber's tail - a German Messerschmitt fighter. Worse, the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber with the squeeze of a trigger. What happened next would defy imagination and later be called the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.
This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that day - the American - Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17 - and the German - Second Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.
A Higher Call follows both Charlie and Franz's harrowing missions. Charlie would face takeoffs in English fog over the flaming wreckage of his buddies' planes, flak bursts so close they would light his cockpit, and packs of enemy fighters that would circle his plane like sharks. Franz would face sandstorms in the desert, a crash alone at sea, and the spectacle of one thousand bombers, each with eleven guns, waiting for his attack.
Ultimately, Charlie and Franz would stare across the frozen skies at one another. What happened between them, the American Eighth Air Force would later classify as top secret. It was an act that Franz could never mention without facing a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for 40 years until, as old men, they would search for one another, a last mission that could change their lives forever....more

Sep 15 2019

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A Higher Call: 1 of 4: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Adam Makos (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher)
https://www.amazon.com/Higher-Call-Incredible-Chivalry-War-Torn/dp/B00BH59WVK/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=
Four days before Christmas in 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a 21-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bomber's tail - a German Messerschmitt fighter. Worse, the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber with the squeeze of a trigger. What happened next would defy imagination and later be called the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.
This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that day - the American - Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17 - and the German - Second Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.
A Higher Call follows both Charlie and Franz's harrowing missions. Charlie would face takeoffs in English fog over the flaming wreckage of his buddies' planes, flak bursts so close they would light his cockpit, and packs of enemy fighters that would circle his plane like sharks. Franz would face sandstorms in the desert, a crash alone at sea, and the spectacle of one thousand bombers, each with eleven guns, waiting for his attack.
Ultimately, Charlie and Franz would stare across the frozen skies at one another. What happened between them, the American Eighth Air Force would later classify as top secret. It was an act that Franz could never mention without facing a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for 40 years until, as old men, they would search for one another, a last mission that could change their lives forever....more

Sep 15 2019

Image: An 1851 poster warning the "colored people of Boston" about policemen acting as slave catchers. Public domain. Read the poster text at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist)#/media/File:Slave_kidnap_post_1851_boston.jpg
.By the time John Brown hung from the gallows for his crimes at Harper's Ferry, Northern abolitionists had made him a “holy martyr” in their campaign against Southern slave owners. This Northern hatred for Southerners long predated their objections to slavery. They were convinced that New England, whose spokesmen had begun the American Revolution, should have been the leader of the new nation. Instead, they had been displaced by Southern “slavocrats” like Thomas Jefferson. This malevolent envy exacerbated the South's greatest fear: a race war. Jefferson's cry, “We are truly to be pitied,” summed up their dread. For decades, extremists in both regions flung insults and threats, creating intractable enmities. By 1861, only a civil war that would kill a million men could save the Union. In this riveting and character-driven history, one of America's most respected historians traces the "disease in the public mind" - distortions of reality that seized large numbers of Americans - in the decades-long run-up to the Civil War.
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Sep 15 2019

Image: Daguerreotype of John Brown, taken by the African-American photographer Augustus Washington in Springfield, Massachusetts, c. 1846–47. Brown is holding the hand-colored flag of Subterranean Pass Way, his militant counterpart to the Underground Railroad. Public domain..By the time John Brown hung from the gallows for his crimes at Harper's Ferry, Northern abolitionists had made him a “holy martyr” in their campaign against Southern slave owners. This Northern hatred for Southerners long predated their objections to slavery. They were convinced that New England, whose spokesmen had begun the American Revolution, should have been the leader of the new nation. Instead, they had been displaced by Southern “slavocrats” like Thomas Jefferson. This malevolent envy exacerbated the South's greatest fear: a race war. Jefferson's cry, “We are truly to be pitied,” summed up their dread. For decades, extremists in both regions flung insults and threats, creating intractable enmities. By 1861, only a civil war that would kill a million men could save the Union. In this riveting and character-driven history, one of America's most respected historians traces the "disease in the public mind" - distortions of reality that seized large numbers of Americans - in the decades-long run-up to the Civil War.
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Sep 15 2019

Image: Scars of Peter, a whipped Louisiana slave, photographed in April 1863 and later distributed by abolitionists. Public domain. Scars of a whipped Mississippi slave, photo taken April 2, 1863, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. Original caption: "’Overseer Artayou Carrier whipped me. I was two months in bed sore from the whipping. My master come after I was whipped; he discharged the overseer.’ The very words of poor Peter, taken as he sat for his picture.".By the time John Brown hung from the gallows for his crimes at Harper's Ferry, Northern abolitionists had made him a “holy martyr” in their campaign against Southern slave owners. This Northern hatred for Southerners long predated their objections to slavery. They were convinced that New England, whose spokesmen had begun the American Revolution, should have been the leader of the new nation. Instead, they had been displaced by Southern “slavocrats” like Thomas Jefferson. This malevolent envy exacerbated the South's greatest fear: a race war. Jefferson's cry, “We are truly to be pitied,” summed up their dread. For decades, extremists in both regions flung insults and threats, creating intractable enmities. By 1861, only a civil war that would kill a million men could save the Union. In this riveting and character-driven history, one of America's most respected historians traces the "disease in the public mind" - distortions of reality that seized large numbers of Americans - in the decades-long run-up to the Civil War.
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Sep 15 2019

Image: Thomas Jefferson. In the original draft of the Declaration of Independence Jefferson accused King George III of fostering colonial slavery, encouraging American slaves to revolt, and condoning the African slave trade. Public domain..By the time John Brown hung from the gallows for his crimes at Harper's Ferry, Northern abolitionists had made him a “holy martyr” in their campaign against Southern slave owners. This Northern hatred for Southerners long predated their objections to slavery. They were convinced that New England, whose spokesmen had begun the American Revolution, should have been the leader of the new nation. Instead, they had been displaced by Southern “slavocrats” like Thomas Jefferson. This malevolent envy exacerbated the South's greatest fear: a race war. Jefferson's cry, “We are truly to be pitied,” summed up their dread. For decades, extremists in both regions flung insults and threats, creating intractable enmities. By 1861, only a civil war that would kill a million men could save the Union. In this riveting and character-driven history, one of America's most respected historians traces the "disease in the public mind" - distortions of reality that seized large numbers of Americans - in the decades-long run-up to the Civil War.
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Sep 15 2019

Photo: Ushuaia, the southernmost town in the world, in the early evening. Some kilometers east of Ushuaia is Estancia Harberton, “The Ranch at the End of the Earth,” founded in 1886 by the Bridges family among four indigenous peoples. See: The Uttermost Part of the Earth. Photo author: Stellaveraush. Permissions*: see below..Argentina fails the in an old-fashioned way. @MaryAnastasiaOG Mary Anastasia O'Grady @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/argentina-needs-the-dollar-11566158469.*Permissions: I, Stellaveraush, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: w:en:Creative Commons Attribution share alike. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work -- under the following conditions: Attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use; Share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
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Sep 15 2019

Painting: Representation of the landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral in Porto Seguro, 1500. Created: 21 December 1921. Public domain.. Bolsanaro vs the Brazilian State. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion
The Amazon fires are mainly the result of drought, while Bolsonaro’s reforms are paving the way for faster growth.. . . Mr Bolsonaro has become the bête noire of progressive punditry the world over for some of his statements on the environment. As fires rage in the Amazon jungle, largely because of drought, he is being blamed for lax enforcement of conservation laws. But opening and modernizing the economy will do far more to protect the forest than have socialist governments before Mr. Bolsonaro or any finger-wagging European elites. Migration to the Amazon has been driven by government subsidies, but also by the needs of the downtrodden, looking for a way to scratch out a living. First World practices like responsibly disposing of waste, caring for soil, and reducing air and water pollution are products of cultural values that come with development. Brazil needs fast growth if it is to create the wealth and opportunity necessary to care for the environment. Yet economic dynamism hasn’t been a priority for its political class. Brazilian politicians are known mostly for nationalism, protectionism and populism.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-you-havent-read-about-brazil-11566755364
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Sep 15 2019

Photo: Original 1919 photograph of former Carlisle football stars as they met on the gridiron for a professional game as the Canton Bulldogs were set to complete their undefeated season and the professional championship. Thorpe and Calac are wearing their Canton Jerseys while Guyon was smart and appears to be wearing some type of an insulated jersey or warm-up.Date | 1919Source | RMY AuctionsAuthor | unattributedPermission(Reusing this file) | | This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or lesshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSouth Korea's I-ON Communications and the birth of an American working-man's professional football league. Albert Lee, I-ON North America.https://www.i-on.net/eng/index.htmlSEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- I-ON Communications Corp. (OTCQB: IONI) ("I-ON" or the "Company"), www.i-on.net, a Seoul, South Korea-based global enterprise software company focused on delivering leading CMS and unstructured data management products and solutions to mid and large-scale enterprises, is pleased to announce that the Company recently signed a Letter-of-Intent with Pacific Pro Football League ("Pacific Pro"), www.pacificprofootball.com, the first of its kind professional development American football league founded by veteran sports agent Mr. Don Yee and led by a distinguished team of former players, coaches and executives. The league is set to begin play in Southern California in the summer of 2020 and will initially consist of four teams, with a vision of expanding to eight and up to twelve teams over the course of several years.
Pursuant to the three-year partnership agreement, I-ON will provide Pacific Pro with a wide range of technologies and services including, but not limited to, the creation of a SaaS-based CRM platform, website design and development, sports metadata collection and analysis, audience data collection and analytics, a player-personnel scouting database, video streaming, as well as a data-capturing platform that will allow for player, game and league performance analysis.
"Pacific Pro Football is the first professional football league for developing football players, and we're very excited to partner with them on this unprecedented initiative," stated Mr. James Oh, Chairman of I-ON. "Pacific Pro's success is I-ON's top priority, and we remain committed to implementing I-ON's innovative technologies ranging from fan engagement, game score recording and player performance recording to performance improvement analysis and streaming broadcasting. This partnership signifies I-ON's initial foray into the North American sports software market, which, according to Hexa Research, is forecasted to increase at a 13% CAGR to $5.5 billion by 2024," added Mr. Oh.
Massive global investment in sports infrastructure including stadiums, complexes and leagues has been the leading driver of sports software development and implementation, which helps organizers automate a plethora of administrative functions, ticket sales and promotions, as well as player and game management utilizing both cloud-based and on-premise technology. North America currently holds a market share of close to 60% and is expected to continue its dominant trend through 2024.
Mr. Yee echoes Oh's excitement on the newly formed partnership, stating, "We are very excited to join forces with I-ON on what we believe is a very unique partnership. The vast offering of communications-based services they'll be able to provide for Pacific Pro, including everything from web and mobile app development and management, to player, coach and audience analytics, will most certainly place our league at the forefront of a burgeoning sector from a communications and technological standpoint. So much of sports today is analytics-driven and their digital and analytics offerings are second to none," stated Mr. Yee.
About I-ON Communications Corp.
I-ON Communications Corp. is a Seoul, South Korea-based enterprise software company founded in 1999. After being awarded its first of six key patents by 2003, I-ON has since evolved into an industry-leading and recognized developer of enterprise-class unstructured data management and digital marketing software solutions. I-ON has sold to over 1,000 mid to large clients across numerous verticals in both the private and public sectors, primarily throughout South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia. The Company has 11 products at market that enable clients to create, measure and optimizes digital experiences for their audiences across marketing channels and devices. These encompass enterprise web content management (CMS), web experience and service delivery software, digital marketing, smart mobility and analytics tools and energy management systems. I-ON's large R&amp;D team has designed and developed industry-leading technologies that are compliant with global standards including GS (Good Software) and NET (New Excellent Technology), while holding numerous domestic and global industry awards and recognition from the likes of Gartner and Red Herring.
About Pacific Pro Football
Launched in early 2018 and scheduled to begin play in July 2020, Pacific Pro is the first American professional football league that will provide an opportunity for football players to play professionally directly out of high school and be compensated for doing so. Led by former NFL wide receiver and three-time Super Bowl Champion Ed McCaffrey, who is serving as Commissioner, and former NFL Network Vice President Jamie Hemann, who serves as the league's CEO, Pacific Pro will focus on player development on and off the field using professional protocols. Players will be trained to play professional football and games and practices will be conducted using only professional protocols. Off the field, Pacific Pro will employ dedicated team counselors to help each player create a sturdy foundation for a post-football life path, through vocational, academic and innovative internship programs.
Forward Looking Statements
Statements in this document contain certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These statements are based on many assumptions and estimates and are not guarantees of future performance. These statements may involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The Company assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements for any reason, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future. Our actual results may differ materially from the results anticipated in these forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors including, without limitation those set forth as "Risk Factors" in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). There may be other factors not mentioned above or included in the Company's SEC filings that may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statement. The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or developments, except as required by securities laws.
Company Contact:
Sang Min Lee / Byung Woo Yuir@i-on.net Lisa Gray, Investor Relations Scott Powell, Investor Relations Skyline Asia Investor Relations, LLC Phone: 212-989-9899 Email: Lisa@skylineasiair.com
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Sep 14 2019

Image: Photo of the comet Hale-Bopp above a tree. This picture was taken in the vicinity of Pazin in Istria/Croatia during a short Easter holiday. The tree was illuminated using a small flashlight. Author: Philipp Salzgeber. Permissions*: see below..At first, it was just another bright, fuzzy speck in the sky. But it may turn out to be something much more exciting: the second known object to hurtle through our solar system after leaving another system. Astronomers will need a lot more observations before they can be confident giving the comet that title, but early data about the object seems promising. That would make the comet, currently known as Comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) after the person who first spotted it, the first traveling successor to the interstellar object 'Oumuamua, which was discovered in October 2017. . . . https://www.space.com/possible-interstellar-comet-identified.html.*Permissions: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Austria license. Flag of Austria.svg You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work--under the following conditions: Attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use; Share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
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Sep 14 2019

Image: Insular Half Uncial script. In England and Ireland, the Latin script used from the post-Roman era to the Eighth Century. A formal book hand, especially used for significant liturgical books such as gospels. .Johnny Can't Read Chaucer. What is to be done? @WJMcGurn @WSJ
Is Majoring in English Worth It? Employers used to be able to count on the skills a liberal-arts education cultivated. . . . If you’re a parent going into hock to pay for your son or daughter’s degree in English lit, you may be feeling a mite anxious about what you are getting for all those dollars. . . . what’s on offer today isn’t your father’s English degree. An ACTA study of English programs reports that 48 of 52 top schools (as ranked by U.S. News &amp; World Report) allow English majors to graduate without ever having taken a course on Shakespeare. . . .
https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-majoring-in-english-worth-it-11568068987
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Sep 14 2019

Image: Mocha was Yemen's busiest port in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Public Domain
.Elana DeLozier is a Research Fellow in the Bernstein Program on Gulf and Energy Policy at The Washington Institute, where she specializes in nuclear weapons and proliferation, counterterrorism, and Gulf politics.· https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/09/saudi-arabia-and-uae-in-joint-bid-to-end-further-yemen-conflict
· https://www.wsj.com/articles/irans-other-terror-front-11568068776
· https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security/yemens-government-starts-indirect-talks-with-southern-separatists-in-saudi-arabia-officials-idUSKCN1VP1Q6
· https://www.npr.org/2019/09/04/757626227/the-latest-on-the-situation-in-yemen
· https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/sweden-s-foreign-minister-yemen-peace-talks-must-be-inclusive-1.906045
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Sep 14 2019

Image: The Sea of Galilee. At its southern tip (right side) the Jordan River exits the lake and enters the Jordan Valley. The Jordan Valley is several degrees warmer than adjacent areas, and its year-round agricultural climate, fertile soils and water supply made it a site for agriculture dating to about 10,000 years ago. By about 3000 BCE, produce from the valley was being exported to neighboring regions. Author: אלה פאוסט. Permission*: see below. .Is the Jordan River valley sovereign territory for Israel? @DavidSamuelMay @FDD.David May is a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies specializing in economic warfare. Prior to joining FDD, David was a senior research analyst at AIPAC where he focused on Israeli-Palestinian issues and the United Nations. David speaks Hebrew and Arabic. He earned a BA in History from the University of Maryland and an MA in International Affairs with concentrations in International Economics and the Middle East from the School of International Service at American University.● https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Arab-response-to-Jordan-Valley-move-shows-regions-shifting-sands-601414
● https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/11/israels-sovereignty-claims-over-the-jordan-valley-are-legitimate/
● https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israeli-tank-shells-hamas-positions-in-gaza-after-rockets-launched-at-south-1.7832420
● https://www.jns.org/netanyahu-vows-to-annex-all-settlements-after-election-starting-with-jordan-valley/
● https://www.jns.org/us-sanctions-leaders-in-terror-groups-hamas-hezbollah-palestinian-islamic-jihad/
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Sep 14 2019

Image: Portrait of Fath Ali Shah, Qajar emperor. Public domain..
Olli Heinonen: Iran grossly violates the JCPOA and worse. Dr. Olli Heinonen is a senior advisor on science and nonproliferation at FDD. He is the former deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and head of its Department of Safeguards. Olli is also a member of the non-partisan Iran Task Force. Olli is currently a senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Before joining the Belfer Center in September 2010, Olli served 27 years at the IAEA in Vienna.● https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/09/06/iran-is-once-again-trying-to-blackmail-the-world-for-billions-we-cant-give-in/
● https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/09/10/new-israeli-findings-may-demonstrate-iran-violated-nuclear-accords/
● https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/israel-zionism/2019/09/whenever-israels-enemies-get-nuclear-technology-north-korea-has-usually-been-involved/
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Sep 13 2019

Photo: Former Attorney General Mitchell enters the Senate caucus room to testify before the Senate Watergate Committee, 1973U.S. Senate Historical Office - U.S. Senate. http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/image/watergate-Mitchell.htm
John N. Mitchell, former Attorney General of the United States, enters the Senate caucus room to testify before the Watergate Committee.
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Sep 13 2019

Photo: THE MORE IMPORTANT PLANT PRODUCTS 8i may have travelled from Persia to China by this same overlandroute ? The poppy is (or was) a winter crop in Szechuan, beinggarnered in April and May in ample time to prepare for therice-crop. No other crop even remotely approximating thepecuniary value of opium can take its place. Several plants yielding fibres valued for textUe and cordagepurposes are grown in China. In Szechuan the most importantof these is the true Hemp (Cannabis sativa), colloquially knownas Hou-ma. This crop is abundantly cultivated aroundWenchiang Hsien and Pi Hsien. It is a spring crop, the seedsbeing sown in February and the plants harvested the end ofMay and beginning of June, just as they commence to flower.The stems are allowed to grow thickly together and reach 8 feetin height. The culms are reaped, stripped of their leaves, andoften the fibre is removed there and then. More commonly,however, the stems are placed in pits filled with water andallowed to ret for a few dayNote About ImagesPlease note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.Date | 1913http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBlack market cannabis and vaping. @HenryIMiller Pacific Research Institute.https://khn.org/morning-breakout/viewpoints-no-easy-breathing-when-it-comes-to-vaping-proposal-to-measure-poverty-differently-is-a-sick-way-to-knock-more-people-off-of-medicaid/
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Sep 13 2019

Photo: Replica of the statue "Goddess of Democracy" from the Tian An Men square protests in 1989. Photo taken in Victoria Park, Hong Kong, during the commemoration event for the 21st anniversary of the massacre. Public domain. MarsmanRom & Isa Ng - Own work.Democracy and the Unconverted. Without the support of the U.S. government, pro-democracy forces around the world will wither as authoritarianism gains ground. Larry Diamond, Hoover Institution Since the end of the Cold War, democracy has made many gains. But the fate of freedom is now hanging in the balance globally. With astonishing courage and resolve over the last several months, ordinary citizens in Algeria, Sudan, Venezuela, and Hong Kong—in numbers and creativity that nearly defy comprehension—have shown that aspirations for democracy did not die with the implosion of the Arab Spring in 2013 or the relentless, bullying rise of a neototalitarian China. In the face of sometimes brutal and even deadly state repression, the courageous mobilization of ordinary citizens . . .
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Sep 13 2019

Image: Flight 93 crash site at Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Public domain. United States v. Zacarias Moussaoui Criminal No. 01-455-A Prosecution Trial Exhibits Exhibit Number P200057 Photograph of the scene in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where Flight 93 crashed; resized and slightly retouched to improve quality.
Not a dry eye at Shanksville, Pennsylvania. @SalenaZito. Fifteen years after first cresting the hill on the county dirt road off of U.S. 30 in Somerset County, it is still impossible to shake the feeling you are entering the hallowed grounds of a battlefield. The ghosts of bravery, determination and resolve embrace you and force you to remember never to let go, never forget that people just like you and me were brutally murdered by terrorists who wanted to send a message to this country and change it forever. . . . https://archive.triblive.com/news/solemn-remembrance-on-hallowed-grounds/?utm_source=Salena+Zito&amp;utm_campaign=73a6a0d869-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_11_11_53&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_06ac76b2f8-73a6a0d869-11447385...more

Sep 13 2019

Photo: Horse eating from a feedbag in Florence, Italy. Public domain..Richard Epstein / For fair employment outcomes, trust the marketplace, not the regulators. . . The numerous critics of trickle-down economics have included such notable historical figures as the actor Will Rogers, who believed in “trickle-up” economics. Not to be outdone, the once-famous economist John Kenneth Galbraith opined, "If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows." These naysayers seek some other mechanism to reduce the levels of income inequality that markets create. Their standard solution from the New Deal on forward has been to impose regulations that redress social inequality, such as minimum wage laws and overtime statutes, which are both predicated on the belief that these contractual interventions will induce the wealth transfers needed to overcome serious income inequality, without reducing the total level of economic goods and services. That fantasy ignores the simple truth that everyone, employers and workers included, responds to incentives. Faced with the threat of regulation, employers will . . .
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Sep 13 2019

Photo: The souq in Amman – a rich and active marketplace. Permissions* see below..Richard Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, Hoover Institution: This past week, the New York Times reporter Ben Casselman wrote a powerful story with the provocative title, “In a Tight Labor Market, a Disability May Not Be a Barrier.” The article praised the diversity and inclusion initiatives that are now deeply embedded in modern corporate culture. Casselman told the moving story of Kate Cosway, who obtained her master’s degree in chemistry and chemical engineering in 2014. Cosway is on the autism spectrum. Her difficulty with interviews meant her job quest had little traction until this past summer, when she was taken on as an intern at Dell Technologies in the company’s audit department. She did well and earned a permanent paying position in the fall. After lauding Cosway’s rise, Casselman asks: How long will the present-day hiring party last if an economic downturn is brought about by President Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again trade war with China? Cosway is no anomaly in today’s hot job market. Thousands of workers who were once thought marginalized and unemployable are now being pursued by employers with tempting offers: good benefits, flexible hours, and training on the job. Ex-cons, college students, retirees, and members of minority groups are all being lured into the labor market by employers faced with serious labor shortages. . . .https://www.hoover.org/research/ability-markets.Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. I -- Pir6mon -- the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it: You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use..
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Sep 13 2019

Photo: : The Chrysler Building in 1932
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Sep 12 2019

Photo: Hong Kong Street Asian Alley Slum City ChinaLicense to use Creative Commons Zero - CC0. You are free to use for many purposes without worrying issues copyright because this image is TRUE FREE. We just want you to back a referral link to Max Pixel (optional).
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Sep 12 2019

Photo: A Railway Post Office clerk is photographed holding a mail pouch and leaning out of a Baltimore & Ohio railroad car next to the car's mail exchange arm, as if waiting to make a mail exchange.Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographerMedium: Black and white photographic printCulture: AmericanGeography: USADate: 1913Collection: U.S. Railway Mail ServicePersistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&id=1965&q=A.2006-64Repository: National Postal MuseumAccession number: A.2006-64This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGoogle is a 90% monopoly of on-line advertising &amp; What is to be done? @jrhuddleshttps://www.mercatus.org/bridge/commentary/facebook-and-antitrust-part-1-what-relevant-market
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Sep 12 2019

Photo: April 2013_lunar_eclipse view of earth The orientation of the earth as viewed from the center of the moon during greatest eclipse. thumb
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Sep 11 2019

Photo: President (1961-1963 : Kennedy). Office of the Naval Aide to the President. (1961 - 1963)Title | President with Theodore Sorensen. Theodore Sorensen, President Kennedy. White House, South Lawn.Date | 12 March 1963his media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 194193.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Kennedy Clan returns to the hunt for the Senate and beyond. @HooverWhalenhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2019/09/05/the-torch-has-been-passed----but-can-a-fourth-generation-of-aspiring-kennedys-run-with-it/#77b2aecf27b0
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Sep 11 2019

Photo: The sixth hurricane of 1906 was one of 11 hurricanes or tropical cyclones that Atlantic hurricane season. The storm made landfall on September 27, 1906, west of Biloxi, Mississippi, but wreaked its greatest damage from Mobile, Alabama to Pensacola, Florida. The Category 4 hurricane was the most destructive storm to strike the Pensacola area in 170 years. Winds in excess of 105 miles (170 kilometers) per hour stretched past the city and port of Pensacola, and Escambia Bay in the Gulf of Mexico saw a storm surge as high as 14 feet (4.3 meters). This photograph shows the damage wrought to Pensacola Harbor. Steam is still rising from the smokestack of a nearly sunken ship, and the harbor is crammed with tumbled and sagging boats and lined with collapsed warehouses and shattered docks. In the background, a wasted city of shaken buildings stretches to the horizon. The storm caused the deaths of 134 people and millions of dollars in damage in Alabama and Florida. Boats; Harbors; Hurricanes; Natural disasters; Ships; Stranding of shipsThis work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Democrats speak of climate as doom. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNewsLiz Peek Fox Opinion September 9, 2019
Hurricane Dorian has claimed another victim: victory for Democrats in 2020.
Last week’s marathon CNN climate forum makes it clear: Dorian blew what remained of Democrat common sense right off the map.
Ask yourself, is Elizabeth Warren smart to promise she’ll ban fracking, when Democrats are desperate to win Pennsylvania in 2020, and the Marcellus fracking play has produced hundreds of thousands of jobs and tens of billions in income for the state?
Does Beto O’Rourke have a future in Texas after vowing to eliminate all fossil fuels, when oil and gas taxes sustain the state’s enviable growth and even a cushy “rainy day” fund?
While there are numerous tripwires threatening Democrats eager to retake the Oval Office in 2020 – no-limit abortions, open borders, wealth confiscation – these are nothing compared to the sheer nonsense trotted out during last week’s seven-hour climate open house.
CNN’s marathon event was catnip to Democrat presidential candidates eager to woo climate-addled millennials with trillion-dollar remedies to prevent the earth’s warming.
Bernie Sanders wants poor women in other countries to abort their babies, Andrew Yang wants to take away our gas-powered vehicles, Kamala Harris wants to change our diet (even though California is the fourth-largest cattle-producing state).
Really, it’s kooky stuff, all meant to bring home just how BIG a problem this is. A problem that O’Rourke, among others, describes as an existential threat to mankind. It doesn’t get bigger than that.
Beto, who can often be counted on for comic relief, related telling his son that the family would move to Washington, D.C., in the unlikely event of his election (he may not have framed it exactly that way) – because that’s where the White House is and because, after all, El Paso was going to quickly become uninhabitable thanks to global warming. (Note the earth has warmed, according to NASA, approximately 0.15 to 0.20 degrees per decade since 1975; Beto’s son’s grandkids will be just fine living in El Paso.)
Both Beto and Pete Buttagieg likened our battle against climate change to fighting World War II, in which more than 400,000 Americans lost their lives, which pretty much sums up the ignorance revealed on the CNN platform.
Some of the candidates seemed alert to the silliness of it all. Harris, asked if we should get rid of plastic straws, responded with less then full-throated enthusiasm, and then got profoundly giggly as she described the difficulties of drinking from paper alternatives. She swiftly shut it down, realizing that not a single person in the room considered plastic straws a laughing matter.
Harris’ impulse is correct; straws are a footnote, estimated to compose about 4 percent of the volume of plastic waste going into our oceans. Because they weigh so little, their contribution to this type of trash is, by my calculation, 0.02 percent of the 9 million tons of refuse deposited each year.
If you really want to clean up the oceans, which is an excellent goal, how about getting rid of plastic bottles? That would make a real difference, but would mean a far bigger battle, since it involves a far bigger industry. And, it might offend those thirsty millennials whose major contribution to fighting climate change so far has been the introduction of the ever-present water bottle.
A more productive approach would be to encourage and fund research on how to reuse or dissolve plastics. That might mean working with Dow Chemical, a major plastics producer, which has initiated a $1 billion multi-firm effort aimed at developing new technologies and recycling efforts in order to reduce plastic waste going into the oceans.
But, that would mean having an open mind and a practical purpose. When Sanders and Warren screech about “greedy” corporations, it makes it a little harder to engage those interests as partners. In any event, Democrats don’t want partners, they want enemies, knowing that anger is one of the biggest boosters to voter turnout.
The ferocity of Hurricane Dorian fed the recent hysteria, of course, with zealots warning that big-weather events are more frequent today than in the past, thanks to global warming. It isn’t true.
The incidence of hurricanes has not increased in modern times; we are just keeping better track. An analysis by scientists working with the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, a contributor to the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reveals that “based on careful examination of the Atlantic tropical storm database (HURDAT) and on estimates of how many storms were likely missed in the past, it is likely that the increase in Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane frequency in HURDAT since the late-1800s is primarily due to improved monitoring.”
Though the last few years have seen a number of powerful storms, the average number of landfalls in the U.S. each year between 2006 through 2015 was a record low for any decade going back to 1850. Of the years suffering the most major hurricanes, only one has occurred in the past two decades since 2000; the worst ever was 1950.
But, facts don’t matter. Anyone who questions Sanders’s claim that, “Hurricane Dorian has everything to do with climate change, which is the existential threat of our time” is written off as a “denier.” Anyone who wants to continue eating cheeseburgers is a Neanderthal and if you think that natural gas has been essential to our country’s reduced emissions in recent years, you’re an idiot.
Democrats want to “own” climate change; they are convinced that their hyperventilation will win over millennial voters, an increasingly large share of the electorate. Republicans, and even many Democrats, are skeptical of spending tens of trillions of dollars to reshape our economy, knowing it will drastically raise energy costs, eliminate a huge geopolitical advantage, and throw millions out of work.
Common-sense Americans won’t buy it, either. As Democrats tumble down the climate change rabbit hole, they may find the price of “owning” climate change is extremely high indeed.
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Sep 11 2019

Photo: Panning for gold on the Mokelumne River in California.Harper's Weekly: How We Got Gold in California. 1860
man panning for gold on the Mokelumne
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Sep 11 2019

Photo: Image taken from page 183 of 'Arabistan: or the Land of “The Arabian Nights.” Being travels through Egypt, Arabia, and Persia, to Bagdad ... With an introduction by Bayard Taylor. [Illustrated.]'Image taken from:
Title: "Arabistan: or the Land of “The Arabian Nights.” Being travels through Egypt, Arabia, and Persia, to Bagdad ... With an introduction by Bayard Taylor. [Illustrated.]"
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Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10077.de.3.", "British Library HMNTS 10076.eee.9."
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Date of Publishing: 1875
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Sep 11 2019

Photo: Photograph of William Jennings Bryan as a young man.Date | Source | Obtained from the online portrait gallery of the University of Texas at Austin [1].This media file is in the public domain in the United States. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWaiting for Biden to disappoint and Warren to outperform. @JohnFund @ThadMcCotterhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/democratic-polls-2020-elizabeth-warren-rises-as-joe-biden-clings-to-delegate-edge-cbs-news-battleground-tracker/
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Sep 11 2019

Photo: Ghazni in early 1800s.Lieutenant James Rattray - The British Library
Town and Citadel of Ghuznee This lithograph was taken from plate 18 of 'Afghaunistan' by Lieutenant James Rattray. This sketch was made near some mosques outside the Kandahar Gate to the west side of Ghazni, a city Rattray visited several times. Ghazni had enjoyed its principal moment of glory 800 years earlier when it was the capital of an empire extending from the Armenian mountains to the fertile plains of the Ganges. Rattray wrote that it was now again well-known, "thanks to our love of territorial aggrandisement, and the occasional desertion of war's fickle deity from our ranks". He described riding slowly over a wide plain, dotted with relics of past ages, to Ghazni: "Interspersed with this havoc of centuries, as far as the eye could reach, were a succession of rich groves, vineyards, flower-gardens, melon-beds and orchards [while] in the blue distance, its white structures just discernable from the mountains it springs from, rested Ghuzni, with its bastions, town and citadel." On 6 September 1842, Ghazni was for a second time wrested from the Afghans by the British under General Nott. On taking possession of the city, the engineers were given two days to blow it up. When Rattray last glimpsed it, "far-famed Ghazni was a heap of smoking ruins".
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Sep 11 2019

Photo: Title: "The Bell of Liberty guided by Philadelphia Policemen." Liberty Bell Day at the 1904 World's Fair.Date | 1904Source | Missouri History MuseumURL: http://images.mohistory.org/image/6D70D6DE-A1F9-8CAE-0263-8BA99FB734AA/original.jpgGallery: http://collections.mohistory.org/resource/146024Author | Jessie Tarbox BealsPermission(Reusing this file) | UND - Copyright undeterminedMHS Open Access Policy: You are welcome to download and utilize any digital file that the Missouri Historical believes is likely in the public domain or is free of other known restrictions. This content is available free of charge and may be used without seeking permission from the Missouri Historical Society.Identifier | N20674Part of | St. Louis World's Fair Album, 1904- LPE (Volume 11 of 11)Subjects | Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)St. Louis World's Fairhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHow do Americans think their neighbors value liberty in dollars? @TimKane @HooverInsthttps://www.foxnews.com/opinion/labor-day-measure-value-questions-tim-kane ...more

Sep 10 2019

Image: A German soldier with two Molotov cocktails on the Eastern Front. Public domain..Last week’s firebombing at the home of Jimmy Lai, publisher of The Apple, Hong Kong newspaper, occurred an hour after the dinner guests (including Gordon Chang) had left. A bunch of thugs on motorcycles threw bombs to kill Jimmy, one of the most prominent publishers in Asia. Seems that Mainland has stepped up its provocations. China is accumulating a lot of debt. No one knows what the real numbers are.
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Sep 10 2019

Image: Political cartoon criticizing the alliance between the prohibitionists and women's suffrage movements. The Genii of Intolerance, labelled "Prohibition," emerges from his bottle. Cartoon by Oscar Edward Cesare (1885-1948). Public domain. Moral: censorship doesn't work.Marissa Streit, PragerU CEO, concerning YouTube, and its invasions of content as it labels political videos of which it doesn't approve as “pornography”! Two court cases anent this: State and Federal claims; the Federal case rests on the First Amendment. Is YouTube a Publisher? If not, then it's restricting free speech. The Stat case : breach of contract. We have over 500 videos on PragerU, and add some each week. After we filed the lawsuits and testified before Congress on this, an additional 100 videos went on the YouTube restricted list. Google sees PragerU as a bunch of “Nazis” – yet Dennis Prager is a Jew.
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Sep 09 2019

Photo: This picture, recorded by one of the Expedition 31 crew members aboard the International Space Station, features Aurora Australis with star streaks while the vehicle was over the South Pacific Ocean. Image credit: NASAhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWho is Astronaut Charles Walker? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

Sep 09 2019

Image: Charles Sumner daguerreotype, c. 1850. Public domain..All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, 1856-1860 Audio CD – Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged; by Sidney Blumenthal (Author), de Golia, Jack (Narrator) In All the Powers of Earth, Lincoln's incredible ascent to power in a world of chaos is newly revealed through the great biographer's extraordinary research and literary style. After a period of depression that he would ever find his way to greatness, Lincoln takes on the most powerful demagogue in the country, Stephen Douglas, in the debates for a Senate seat. He sidelines the front-runner, William Seward, a former governor and senator for New York, to cinch the new Republican Party's nomination. All the Powers of Earth is the political story of all time. Lincoln achieves the presidency by force of strategy, of political savvy and determination. This is Abraham Lincoln, who indisputably becomes the greatest president and moral leader in the nation's history. But he must first build a new political party, brilliantly state the anti-slavery case and overcome shattering defeat to win the presidency. In the years of civil war to follow, he will show mightily that the nation was right to bet on him. He was its preserver, a politician of moral integrityhttps://www.amazon.com/All-Powers-Earth-Political-1856-1860/dp/1618034197/ref=tmm_abk_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=...more

Sep 09 2019

Image: Composite image from portrait photographs of Abraham Lincoln (1860) and Stephen A. Douglas (1859). Public domain..All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, 1856-1860 Audio CD – Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged; by Sidney Blumenthal (Author), de Golia, Jack (Narrator) In All the Powers of Earth, Lincoln's incredible ascent to power in a world of chaos is newly revealed through the great biographer's extraordinary research and literary style. After a period of depression that he would ever find his way to greatness, Lincoln takes on the most powerful demagogue in the country, Stephen Douglas, in the debates for a Senate seat. He sidelines the front-runner, William Seward, a former governor and senator for New York, to cinch the new Republican Party's nomination. All the Powers of Earth is the political story of all time. Lincoln achieves the presidency by force of strategy, of political savvy and determination. This is Abraham Lincoln, who indisputably becomes the greatest president and moral leader in the nation's history. But he must first build a new political party, brilliantly state the anti-slavery case and overcome shattering defeat to win the presidency. In the years of civil war to follow, he will show mightily that the nation was right to bet on him. He was its preserver, a politician of moral integrityhttps://www.amazon.com/All-Powers-Earth-Political-1856-1860/dp/1618034197/ref=tmm_abk_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=...more

Sep 09 2019

Image: Frederick Douglass, c.1840s, in his twenties. Public domain..All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, 1856-1860 Audio CD – Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged; by Sidney Blumenthal (Author), de Golia, Jack (Narrator) In All the Powers of Earth, Lincoln's incredible ascent to power in a world of chaos is newly revealed through the great biographer's extraordinary research and literary style. After a period of depression that he would ever find his way to greatness, Lincoln takes on the most powerful demagogue in the country, Stephen Douglas, in the debates for a Senate seat. He sidelines the front-runner, William Seward, a former governor and senator for New York, to cinch the new Republican Party's nomination. All the Powers of Earth is the political story of all time. Lincoln achieves the presidency by force of strategy, of political savvy and determination. This is Abraham Lincoln, who indisputably becomes the greatest president and moral leader in the nation's history. But he must first build a new political party, brilliantly state the anti-slavery case and overcome shattering defeat to win the presidency. In the years of civil war to follow, he will show mightily that the nation was right to bet on him. He was its preserver, a politician of moral integrity
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Sep 09 2019

Image: “The Last Moments of John Brown,” a late-19th century painting by the Irish-American artist Thomas Hovenden. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts the American abolitionist and insurrectionist John Brown being led to his execution. The painting is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Created between 1882 and 1884. Permissions: This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission..
All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, 1856-1860 Audio CD – Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged; by Sidney Blumenthal (Author), de Golia, Jack (Narrator) In All the Powers of Earth, Lincoln's incredible ascent to power in a world of chaos is newly revealed through the great biographer's extraordinary research and literary style. After a period of depression that he would ever find his way to greatness, Lincoln takes on the most powerful demagogue in the country, Stephen Douglas, in the debates for a Senate seat. He sidelines the front-runner, William Seward, a former governor and senator for New York, to cinch the new Republican Party's nomination. All the Powers of Earth is the political story of all time. Lincoln achieves the presidency by force of strategy, of political savvy and determination. This is Abraham Lincoln, who indisputably becomes the greatest president and moral leader in the nation's history. But he must first build a new political party, brilliantly state the anti-slavery case and overcome shattering defeat to win the presidency. In the years of civil war to follow, he will show mightily that the nation was right to bet on him. He was its preserver, a politician of moral integrity
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Sep 09 2019

Image: Dred and Harriet Scott, wood engraving after photographs by Fitzgibbon, St. Louis. Public domain..
All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, 1856-1860 Audio CD – Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged; by Sidney Blumenthal (Author), de Golia, Jack (Narrator) In All the Powers of Earth, Lincoln's incredible ascent to power in a world of chaos is newly revealed through the great biographer's extraordinary research and literary style. After a period of depression that he would ever find his way to greatness, Lincoln takes on the most powerful demagogue in the country, Stephen Douglas, in the debates for a Senate seat. He sidelines the front-runner, William Seward, a former governor and senator for New York, to cinch the new Republican Party's nomination. All the Powers of Earth is the political story of all time. Lincoln achieves the presidency by force of strategy, of political savvy and determination. This is Abraham Lincoln, who indisputably becomes the greatest president and moral leader in the nation's history. But he must first build a new political party, brilliantly state the anti-slavery case and overcome shattering defeat to win the presidency. In the years of civil war to follow, he will show mightily that the nation was right to bet on him. He was its preserver, a politician of moral integrity
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Sep 09 2019

Image: James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States. .All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, 1856-1860 Audio CD – Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged; by Sidney Blumenthal (Author), de Golia, Jack (Narrator) In All the Powers of Earth, Lincoln's incredible ascent to power in a world of chaos is newly revealed through the great biographer's extraordinary research and literary style. After a period of depression that he would ever find his way to greatness, Lincoln takes on the most powerful demagogue in the country, Stephen Douglas, in the debates for a Senate seat. He sidelines the front-runner, William Seward, a former governor and senator for New York, to cinch the new Republican Party's nomination. All the Powers of Earth is the political story of all time. Lincoln achieves the presidency by force of strategy, of political savvy and determination. This is Abraham Lincoln, who indisputably becomes the greatest president and moral leader in the nation's history. But he must first build a new political party, brilliantly state the anti-slavery case and overcome shattering defeat to win the presidency. In the years of civil war to follow, he will show mightily that the nation was right to bet on him. He was its preserver, a politician of moral integrity
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Sep 09 2019

Image: William H Seward, around 1844; 24th United States Secretary of State. Painting by Henry Inman. Public domain. .
All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, 1856-1860 Audio CD – Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged; by Sidney Blumenthal (Author), de Golia, Jack (Narrator) In All the Powers of Earth, Lincoln's incredible ascent to power in a world of chaos is newly revealed through the great biographer's extraordinary research and literary style. After a period of depression that he would ever find his way to greatness, Lincoln takes on the most powerful demagogue in the country, Stephen Douglas, in the debates for a Senate seat. He sidelines the front-runner, William Seward, a former governor and senator for New York, to cinch the new Republican Party's nomination. All the Powers of Earth is the political story of all time. Lincoln achieves the presidency by force of strategy, of political savvy and determination. This is Abraham Lincoln, who indisputably becomes the greatest president and moral leader in the nation's history. But he must first build a new political party, brilliantly state the anti-slavery case and overcome shattering defeat to win the presidency. In the years of civil war to follow, he will show mightily that the nation was right to bet on him. He was its preserver, a politician of moral integrity
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Sep 09 2019

Image: Abraham Lincoln, 3 June 1860; sixteenth President of the United States. Library of Congress. Public domain..
All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III, 1856-1860 Audio CD – Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged; by Sidney Blumenthal (Author), de Golia, Jack (Narrator) In All the Powers of Earth, Lincoln's incredible ascent to power in a world of chaos is newly revealed through the great biographer's extraordinary research and literary style. After a period of depression that he would ever find his way to greatness, Lincoln takes on the most powerful demagogue in the country, Stephen Douglas, in the debates for a Senate seat. He sidelines the front-runner, William Seward, a former governor and senator for New York, to cinch the new Republican Party's nomination. All the Powers of Earth is the political story of all time. Lincoln achieves the presidency by force of strategy, of political savvy and determination. This is Abraham Lincoln, who indisputably becomes the greatest president and moral leader in the nation's history. But he must first build a new political party, brilliantly state the anti-slavery case and overcome shattering defeat to win the presidency. In the years of civil war to follow, he will show mightily that the nation was right to bet on him. He was its preserver, a politician of moral integrity
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Sep 09 2019

Image: Street in the Shanghai Ghetto, formally known as the Restricted Sector for Stateless Refugees, was an area of approximately one square mile in the Hongkew district of Japanese-occupied Shanghai. 1943. Public domain..Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze; Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Peter Harmsen (Author), George Backman (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Shanghai-1937-Stalingrad-Yangtze/dp/B00JW034GG/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1567886747&amp;sr=8-1This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th century. At its height it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers, while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators and, often, victims. It turned what had been a Japanese adventure in China into a general war between the two oldest and proudest civilizations of the Far East. Ultimately, it led to Pearl Harbor and to seven decades of tumultuous history in Asia. The Battle of Shanghai was a pivotal event that helped define and shape the modern world. In its sheer scale, the struggle for China's largest city was a sinister forewarning of what was in store for the rest of mankind only a few years hence, in theaters around the world. It demonstrated how technology had given rise to new forms of warfare, or had made old forms even more lethal. Amphibious landings, tank assaults, aerial dogfights and most importantly, urban combat, all happened in Shanghai in 1937. It was a dress rehearsal for World War II - or perhaps more correctly it was the inaugural act in the war - the first major battle in the global conflict. Actors from a variety of nations were present in Shanghai during the three fateful autumn months when the battle raged. The rich cast included China's ascetic Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Japanese adversary, General Matsui Iwane, who wanted Asia to rise from disunity, but ultimately pushed the continent toward its deadliest conflict ever. Claire Chennault, later of "Flying Tiger" fame, was among the figures emerging in the course of the campaign, as was First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In an ironic twist, Alexander von Falkenhausen, a stern German veteran of the Great War, abandoned his role as a mere advisor to the Chinese army and led it into battle against the Japanese invaders....more

Sep 09 2019

Image: Shanghai's Nanjing Road in the 1930s. Unknown author. This image is now in the public domain in China because its term of copyright has expired..Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze; Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Peter Harmsen (Author), George Backman (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Shanghai-1937-Stalingrad-Yangtze/dp/B00JW034GG/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1567886747&sr=8-1This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th century. At its height it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers, while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators and, often, victims. It turned what had been a Japanese adventure in China into a general war between the two oldest and proudest civilizations of the Far East. Ultimately, it led to Pearl Harbor and to seven decades of tumultuous history in Asia. The Battle of Shanghai was a pivotal event that helped define and shape the modern world. In its sheer scale, the struggle for China's largest city was a sinister forewarning of what was in store for the rest of mankind only a few years hence, in theaters around the world. It demonstrated how technology had given rise to new forms of warfare, or had made old forms even more lethal. Amphibious landings, tank assaults, aerial dogfights and most importantly, urban combat, all happened in Shanghai in 1937. It was a dress rehearsal for World War II - or perhaps more correctly it was the inaugural act in the war - the first major battle in the global conflict. Actors from a variety of nations were present in Shanghai during the three fateful autumn months when the battle raged. The rich cast included China's ascetic Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Japanese adversary, General Matsui Iwane, who wanted Asia to rise from disunity, but ultimately pushed the continent toward its deadliest conflict ever. Claire Chennault, later of "Flying Tiger" fame, was among the figures emerging in the course of the campaign, as was First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In an ironic twist, Alexander von Falkenhausen, a stern German veteran of the Great War, abandoned his role as a mere advisor to the Chinese army and led it into battle against the Japanese invaders....more

Sep 09 2019

Image: Map of the Old City of Shanghai, Seventeenth Century. Author: World Imaging; own work, photographed at the Da Jing Ge Pavillion Permissions: I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use..
Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze; Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Peter Harmsen (Author), George Backman (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Shanghai-1937-Stalingrad-Yangtze/dp/B00JW034GG/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1567886747&amp;sr=8-1This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th century. At its height it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers, while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators and, often, victims. It turned what had been a Japanese adventure in China into a general war between the two oldest and proudest civilizations of the Far East. Ultimately, it led to Pearl Harbor and to seven decades of tumultuous history in Asia. The Battle of Shanghai was a pivotal event that helped define and shape the modern world. In its sheer scale, the struggle for China's largest city was a sinister forewarning of what was in store for the rest of mankind only a few years hence, in theaters around the world. It demonstrated how technology had given rise to new forms of warfare, or had made old forms even more lethal. Amphibious landings, tank assaults, aerial dogfights and most importantly, urban combat, all happened in Shanghai in 1937. It was a dress rehearsal for World War II - or perhaps more correctly it was the inaugural act in the war - the first major battle in the global conflict. Actors from a variety of nations were present in Shanghai during the three fateful autumn months when the battle raged. The rich cast included China's ascetic Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Japanese adversary, General Matsui Iwane, who wanted Asia to rise from disunity, but ultimately pushed the continent toward its deadliest conflict ever. Claire Chennault, later of "Flying Tiger" fame, was among the figures emerging in the course of the campaign, as was First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In an ironic twist, Alexander von Falkenhausen, a stern German veteran of the Great War, abandoned his role as a mere advisor to the Chinese army and led it into battle against the Japanese invaders.
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Sep 09 2019

Image: France Town in Shanghai, 1905; historical postcard of China. Public domain..
Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze; Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Peter Harmsen (Author), George Backman (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Shanghai-1937-Stalingrad-Yangtze/dp/B00JW034GG/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1567886747&sr=8-1This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th century. At its height it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers, while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators and, often, victims. It turned what had been a Japanese adventure in China into a general war between the two oldest and proudest civilizations of the Far East. Ultimately, it led to Pearl Harbor and to seven decades of tumultuous history in Asia. The Battle of Shanghai was a pivotal event that helped define and shape the modern world. In its sheer scale, the struggle for China's largest city was a sinister forewarning of what was in store for the rest of mankind only a few years hence, in theaters around the world. It demonstrated how technology had given rise to new forms of warfare, or had made old forms even more lethal. Amphibious landings, tank assaults, aerial dogfights and most importantly, urban combat, all happened in Shanghai in 1937. It was a dress rehearsal for World War II - or perhaps more correctly it was the inaugural act in the war - the first major battle in the global conflict. Actors from a variety of nations were present in Shanghai during the three fateful autumn months when the battle raged. The rich cast included China's ascetic Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Japanese adversary, General Matsui Iwane, who wanted Asia to rise from disunity, but ultimately pushed the continent toward its deadliest conflict ever. Claire Chennault, later of "Flying Tiger" fame, was among the figures emerging in the course of the campaign, as was First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In an ironic twist, Alexander von Falkenhausen, a stern German veteran of the Great War, abandoned his role as a mere advisor to the Chinese army and led it into battle against the Japanese invaders.
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Sep 08 2019

Image: Woodstock 1969. Public domain. Wikipedia: . . . Along with the name Youth International Party, the organization was also simply called Yippie!, as in a shout for joy (with an exclamation mark to express exhilaration). "What does ‘Yippie!’ mean?" Abbie Hoffman wrote. "Energy – fun – fierceness – exclamation point!".
American Fun: Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt, by John Beckman. https://www.amazon.com/American-Fun-Centuries-Joyous-Revolt/dp/0307908178/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1567886578&amp;sr=8-1
Here is an animated and wonderfully engaging work of cultural history that lays out America’s unruly past by describing the ways in which cutting loose has always been, and still is, an essential part of what it means to be an American. From the time the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, Americans have defied their stodgy rules and hierarchies with pranks, dances, stunts, and wild parties, shaping the national character in profound and lasting ways. In the nation’s earlier eras, revelers flouted Puritans, Patriots pranked Redcoats, slaves lampooned masters, and forty-niners bucked the saddles of an increasingly uptight middle class. In the twentieth century, fun-loving Americans celebrated this heritage and pushed it even further: flappers “barney-mugged” in “petting pantries,” Yippies showered the New York Stock Exchange with dollar bills, and B-boys invented hip-hop in a war zone in the Bronx. This is the surprising and revelatory history that John Beckman recounts in American Fun. Tying together captivating stories of Americans’ “pursuit of happiness”—and distinguishing between real, risky fun and the bland amusements that paved the way for Hollywood, Disneyland, and Xbox—Beckman redefines American culture with a delightful and provocative thesis.
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Sep 08 2019

Image: The fabulous Josephine Baker dancing the Charleston; here, at the Folies-Bergère in Paris. Public domain..
American Fun: Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt,by John Beckman. https://www.amazon.com/American-Fun-Centuries-Joyous-Revolt/dp/0307908178/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1567886578&sr=8-1
Here is an animated and wonderfully engaging work of cultural history that lays out America’s unruly past by describing the ways in which cutting loose has always been, and still is, an essential part of what it means to be an American. From the time the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, Americans have defied their stodgy rules and hierarchies with pranks, dances, stunts, and wild parties, shaping the national character in profound and lasting ways. In the nation’s earlier eras, revelers flouted Puritans, Patriots pranked Redcoats, slaves lampooned masters, and forty-niners bucked the saddles of an increasingly uptight middle class. In the twentieth century, fun-loving Americans celebrated this heritage and pushed it even further: flappers “barney-mugged” in “petting pantries,” Yippies showered the New York Stock Exchange with dollar bills, and B-boys invented hip-hop in a war zone in the Bronx. This is the surprising and revelatory history that John Beckman recounts in American Fun. Tying together captivating stories of Americans’ “pursuit of happiness”—and distinguishing between real, risky fun and the bland amusements that paved the way for Hollywood, Disneyland, and Xbox—Beckman redefines American culture with a delightful and provocative thesis.
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Sep 08 2019

Image: 1. See: Tip, Tap, and Toe: possibly the best dancers in American history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BHsxGU9_YQ 2. The Old Plantation (Slaves Dancing on a South Carolina Plantation), ca. 1785-1795. watercolor on paper, attributed to John Rose, Beaufort County, South Carolina. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less.
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American Fun: Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt,by John Beckman. https://www.amazon.com/American-Fun-Centuries-Joyous-Revolt/dp/0307908178/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1567886578&amp;sr=8-1
Here is an animated and wonderfully engaging work of cultural history that lays out America’s unruly past by describing the ways in which cutting loose has always been, and still is, an essential part of what it means to be an American. From the time the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, Americans have defied their stodgy rules and hierarchies with pranks, dances, stunts, and wild parties, shaping the national character in profound and lasting ways. In the nation’s earlier eras, revelers flouted Puritans, Patriots pranked Redcoats, slaves lampooned masters, and forty-niners bucked the saddles of an increasingly uptight middle class. In the twentieth century, fun-loving Americans celebrated this heritage and pushed it even further: flappers “barney-mugged” in “petting pantries,” Yippies showered the New York Stock Exchange with dollar bills, and B-boys invented hip-hop in a war zone in the Bronx. This is the surprising and revelatory history that John Beckman recounts in American Fun. Tying together captivating stories of Americans’ “pursuit of happiness”—and distinguishing between real, risky fun and the bland amusements that paved the way for Hollywood, Disneyland, and Xbox—Beckman redefines American culture with a delightful and provocative thesis.
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Sep 08 2019

Image: The Embarkation of the Pilgrims (1857) by the American painter Robert Walter Weir, at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This is a moment when they were not having fun. Public domain..
American Fun: Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt,by John Beckman. https://www.amazon.com/American-Fun-Centuries-Joyous-Revolt/dp/0307908178/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1567886578&sr=8-1
Here is an animated and wonderfully engaging work of cultural history that lays out America’s unruly past by describing the ways in which cutting loose has always been, and still is, an essential part of what it means to be an American. From the time the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, Americans have defied their stodgy rules and hierarchies with pranks, dances, stunts, and wild parties, shaping the national character in profound and lasting ways. In the nation’s earlier eras, revelers flouted Puritans, Patriots pranked Redcoats, slaves lampooned masters, and forty-niners bucked the saddles of an increasingly uptight middle class. In the twentieth century, fun-loving Americans celebrated this heritage and pushed it even further: flappers “barney-mugged” in “petting pantries,” Yippies showered the New York Stock Exchange with dollar bills, and B-boys invented hip-hop in a war zone in the Bronx. This is the surprising and revelatory history that John Beckman recounts in American Fun. Tying together captivating stories of Americans’ “pursuit of happiness”—and distinguishing between real, risky fun and the bland amusements that paved the way for Hollywood, Disneyland, and Xbox—Beckman redefines American culture with a delightful and provocative thesis.
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Sep 08 2019

Image: Giulio Clovio, Adoration of the Magi and Solomon Adored by the Queen of Sheba from the Farnese Hours, 1546. Public Domain
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The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made ; Hardcover – July 9, 2013. by Philip Bobbitt (Author)
The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded as the single most influential book on politics—and in particular on the politics of power—ever written. In this groundbreaking book, Philip Bobbitt explores this often-misunderstood work in the context of the time. He describes The Prince as one half of a masterpiece that, along with Machiavelli’s often-neglected Discourses. prophesies the end of the feudal era and describes the birth of the neoclassical Renaissance State. Using both Renaissance examples and cases drawn from our current era, Bobbitt situates Machiavelli’s work as a turning point in our understanding of the relation between war and law as these create and maintain the State. This is a fascinating history and commentary by the man whom Henry Kissinger called "the outstanding political philosopher of our time."
https://www.amazon.com/Garments-Court-Palace-Machiavelli-World/dp/0802120741/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1567886404&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr1
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Sep 08 2019

Image: Coats of arms of the guilds of Florence, 18th century. Public domain..
The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made ; Hardcover – July 9, 2013. by Philip Bobbitt (Author)
The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded as the single most influential book on politics—and in particular on the politics of power—ever written. In this groundbreaking book, Philip Bobbitt explores this often-misunderstood work in the context of the time. He describes The Prince as one half of a masterpiece that, along with Machiavelli’s often-neglected Discourses. prophesies the end of the feudal era and describes the birth of the neoclassical Renaissance State. Using both Renaissance examples and cases drawn from our current era, Bobbitt situates Machiavelli’s work as a turning point in our understanding of the relation between war and law as these create and maintain the State. This is a fascinating history and commentary by the man whom Henry Kissinger called "the outstanding political philosopher of our time."
https://www.amazon.com/Garments-Court-Palace-Machiavelli-World/dp/0802120741/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1567886404&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr1
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Sep 08 2019

Image: Girolamo Savonarola being hanged and burnt at the stake in 1498, in Piazza della Signoria in Florence. Museo di San Marco. Public domain..
The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made ; Hardcover – July 9, 2013. by Philip Bobbitt (Author)
The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded as the single most influential book on politics—and in particular on the politics of power—ever written. In this groundbreaking book, Philip Bobbitt explores this often-misunderstood work in the context of the time. He describes The Prince as one half of a masterpiece that, along with Machiavelli’s often-neglected Discourses. prophesies the end of the feudal era and describes the birth of the neoclassical Renaissance State. Using both Renaissance examples and cases drawn from our current era, Bobbitt situates Machiavelli’s work as a turning point in our understanding of the relation between war and law as these create and maintain the State. This is a fascinating history and commentary by the man whom Henry Kissinger called "the outstanding political philosopher of our time."https://www.amazon.com/Garments-Court-Palace-Machiavelli-World/dp/0802120741/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1567886404&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr1...more

Sep 08 2019

Image: Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli by Santi di Tito. Public domain..
The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made ; Hardcover – July 9, 2013. by Philip Bobbitt (Author)
The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded as the single most influential book on politics—and in particular on the politics of power—ever written. In this groundbreaking book, Philip Bobbitt explores this often-misunderstood work in the context of the time. He describes The Prince as one half of a masterpiece that, along with Machiavelli’s often-neglected Discourses. prophesies the end of the feudal era and describes the birth of the neoclassical Renaissance State. Using both Renaissance examples and cases drawn from our current era, Bobbitt situates Machiavelli’s work as a turning point in our understanding of the relation between war and law as these create and maintain the State. This is a fascinating history and commentary by the man whom Henry Kissinger called "the outstanding political philosopher of our time."
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Sep 08 2019

Image: Musk cat, by Uto Gyoshi (Japanese, second half of Sixteenth Century. Hanging scroll. Public domain, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum .
Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet; Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. John Bradshaw (Author), Graeme Malcolm (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Sense-Feline-Science-Better/dp/B00ECCVMEU/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=cat+sense+bradshaw&qid=1567886222&s=audible&sr=1-1Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. In Cat Sense, renowned anthrozoologist John Bradshaw takes us further into the mind of the domestic cat than ever before, using cutting-edge scientific research to explain the true nature - and needs - of our feline friends. Tracing the cat's evolution from solitary hunter to domesticated companion, Bradshaw shows that cats remain independent, predatory, and wary of social contact, qualities that often clash with the demands of our modern lifestyles. If we're to live in harmony with cats, Bradshaw contends, we first need to understand and adapt to their ancient quirks. A must-listen for any cat lover, Cat Sense challenges our most basic assumptions about cats and promises to dramatically improve their lives - and ours.
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Sep 08 2019

Image: Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a wild cat, ca. 1st century B.C. Parthian. Public domain, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum .
Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet; Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. John Bradshaw (Author), Graeme Malcolm (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Sense-Feline-Science-Better/dp/B00ECCVMEU/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=cat+sense+bradshaw&qid=1567886222&s=audible&sr=1-1Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. In Cat Sense, renowned anthrozoologist John Bradshaw takes us further into the mind of the domestic cat than ever before, using cutting-edge scientific research to explain the true nature - and needs - of our feline friends. Tracing the cat's evolution from solitary hunter to domesticated companion, Bradshaw shows that cats remain independent, predatory, and wary of social contact, qualities that often clash with the demands of our modern lifestyles. If we're to live in harmony with cats, Bradshaw contends, we first need to understand and adapt to their ancient quirks. A must-listen for any cat lover, Cat Sense challenges our most basic assumptions about cats and promises to dramatically improve their lives - and ours.
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Sep 08 2019

Image: Cat sitting under a chair, a mural in an Egyptian tomb dating to the 15th century BC. Public domain..
Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet; Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. John Bradshaw (Author), Graeme Malcolm (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Sense-Feline-Science-Better/dp/B00ECCVMEU/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=cat+sense+bradshaw&qid=1567886222&s=audible&sr=1-1Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. In Cat Sense, renowned anthrozoologist John Bradshaw takes us further into the mind of the domestic cat than ever before, using cutting-edge scientific research to explain the true nature - and needs - of our feline friends. Tracing the cat's evolution from solitary hunter to domesticated companion, Bradshaw shows that cats remain independent, predatory, and wary of social contact, qualities that often clash with the demands of our modern lifestyles. If we're to live in harmony with cats, Bradshaw contends, we first need to understand and adapt to their ancient quirks. A must-listen for any cat lover, Cat Sense challenges our most basic assumptions about cats and promises to dramatically improve their lives - and ours.
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Sep 08 2019

Image: Young male tabby cat, Portugal. Permissions: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License..
Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet; Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. John Bradshaw (Author), Graeme Malcolm (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Sense-Feline-Science-Better/dp/B00ECCVMEU/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=cat+sense+bradshaw&amp;qid=1567886222&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. In Cat Sense, renowned anthrozoologist John Bradshaw takes us further into the mind of the domestic cat than ever before, using cutting-edge scientific research to explain the true nature - and needs - of our feline friends. Tracing the cat's evolution from solitary hunter to domesticated companion, Bradshaw shows that cats remain independent, predatory, and wary of social contact, qualities that often clash with the demands of our modern lifestyles. If we're to live in harmony with cats, Bradshaw contends, we first need to understand and adapt to their ancient quirks. A must-listen for any cat lover, Cat Sense challenges our most basic assumptions about cats and promises to dramatically improve their lives - and ours.
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Sep 08 2019

Photo: Lithograph of Howard's Corps of Sherman's Army crossing the Edisto during the Carolinas Campaign from 1872 children's textbook.Shea, John Gilmary - Shea, John Gilmary, A child's hist. of the US, 1872
Sherman's March to the Sea ; crossing the Edisto.
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http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe New America Civil War: Moderation destroyed. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisishttps://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/we-were-made-for-civil-war/
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Sep 08 2019

Photo:English: image of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, circa 1900, depicting Main Street likely in winter or early Spring. Horse-driven carriages and wagons appear to be the sole conveyances.Date | circa 1900 Source | Wisconsin Historical Society imageAuthor | UnknownThis media file is in the public domain in the United States. Has anyone in Wisconsin has changed a vote since November, 2016? @SalenaZitohttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/wisconsin-sen-ron-johnson-voters-hurt-by-trade-war-sticking-with-trump-anyway
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Sep 07 2019

Image: The curb outside the New York Stock Exchange where the panic of 1907 began. Public domain..Small Business America: Bankruptcy Code Improved. @GeneMarks Bankruptcy Code Changes, Part 2: Small Businesses Catch a Breakhttps://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/bankruptcy-code-changes-part-2-small-18817/@BarleySnyder

Sep 07 2019

Image: The first $10 National Bank Note issued by The First National Bank of Hawaii at Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii (1900), signed by Cecil Brown (President) and W.G. Cooper (Cashier). The vignette at left shows Benjamin Franklin conducting the famous Kite experiment. The 5550 in brown ink (and large numerals on the reverse) is the issuing bank's national charter number, also shown in the note's border engraving. Public domain. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing - Image by Godot13..Business owners, there's no need to be concerned over a recession – for nowhttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/29/us-economy-recession-reasons-why Here's a list of recession signals that are flashing redhttps://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/09/02/heres-a-list-of-recession-signals-that-are-flashing-red.html?amp_js_v=0.1#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp;amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&amp;ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2019%2F09%2F02%2Fheres-a-list-of-recession-signals-that-are-flashing-red.html Mortgage Rates Set Another Long-Term Lowhttp://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/consumer_rates/920515.aspx Construction spending riseshttps://www.census.gov/construction/c30/pdf/release.pdf Economic activity in the manufacturing sector contracted in August,https://www.instituteforsupplymanagement.org/ismreport/mfgrob.cfm?SSO=1 Small Business Job Growth Declined in August, While Wages Stabilized, Says Paychex small-business-job-growth-job-growth-declined-in-august-while-wages-stabilized-says-paychex @accountingtoday
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Sep 07 2019

Image: Merneptah Stele known as the Israel stela (JE 31408) from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. While alternative translations exist, the majority of biblical archeologists translate a set of hieroglyphs as "Israel", representing the first instance of the name Israel in the historical record. Created: 14 March 2003 Permissions: I, Webscribe, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. .Groundhog Day Israeli Elections. Malcolm Hoenlein @NeriZilber.. .. .. Neri Zilber is a journalist based in Tel Aviv, an adjunct Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and a senior fellow at BICOM, a British think tank.· https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Think-About-It-What-are-the-chances-of-a-national-unity-government-598402· https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-may-meet-putin-before-elections-officials-indicate/· https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-rare-criticism-rivlin-implies-pm-took-advantage-of-country-to-call-new-vote/· https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-israel-election-netanyahu-gantz-polls-1.7794430· https://www.jpost.com/Israel-Elections/Joint-Lists-Ayman-Odeh-I-want-to-be-prime-minister-600609· https://www.jns.org/ahead-of-sept-17-elections-ayelet-shaked-lays-out-right-wing-vision-for-israel/
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Sep 07 2019

Photo: Great Andromeda Nebula by Isaac Roberts, 1899.Isaac Roberts (d. 1904) - A Selection of Photographs of Stars, Star-clusters and Nebulae, Volume II, The Universal Press, London, 1899.
Great Andromeda Nebula. Public domain photo of from A Selection of Photographs of Stars, Star-clusters and Nebulae, Volume II, The Universal Press, London, 1899. Author (Isaac Roberts) died on 17 July 1904
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http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAlternative Universe of the Googler Politicals &amp; What is to be done? @DanHenninger @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/the-google-syndrome-11567636819
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Sep 07 2019

Image: Turkish sword, 1522-66; of steel, gold, fish skin, wood. Laudatory Qur'anic inscriptions that stress the sovereignty of God and the wisdom and power of his servant Solomon appear to be clever allusions to the Ottoman sultan Süleyman the Magnificent. Public domain: by courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City..Idlib offensive, Kurdish mayors, Russian jets. A freeze in Moscow over ice cream? – Erdogan and Rouhani to meet there again. “The world is bigger than five” – the five nuclear powers in the Security Council. Erdogan has removed of three Kurdish mayors in Turkey, but 88 municipal officials overall. He’s trying to provoke the Kurds to take to the streets and perhaps into violence, in order to gin up support from his base. It's the presence of three million Syrian refugees that’s causing real problems; he’s trying to find somewhere to put them. Abdullah Gul: everyone’s waiting for him to stand up against Erdogan, which he does not do. Davutoglu has an ego bigger than Erdogan’s, so he might rise to the occasion – for all the wrong reasons. . .· https://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/turkey-removes-three-pro-kurdish-mayors-over-terrorism-charges-1.899925
· https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-04/russia-and-turkey-say-they-re-in-talks-on-fighter-jet-sales
· https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/turkey-bracing-new-jihadi-threat
· https://www.fdd.org/analysis/policy-briefs/2019/08/21/erdogan-removes-kurdish-mayors-from-office-again/
· https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-politics/turkish-minister-threatens-istanbul-mayor-over-ousted-kurdish-mayors-idUSKCN1VO1IW
· https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Russia-Iran-unlikely-to-concede-to-Turkey-on-Syria-worries-Analysts-600687
· https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-nuclear-erdogan/erdogan-says-its-unacceptable-that-turkey-cant-have-nuclear-weapons-idUSKCN1VP2QN
Blaise Misztal is a Fellow at Hudson Institute. His research program focuses on the Middle East, Europe, and strategic competition. Most recently, Misztal served as the Executive Director of the Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States, a congressionally mandated project convened by the U.S. Institute of Peace.
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Sep 07 2019

Photo: General view, with Lebanon in the distance, Beyrout, Holy Land, (i.e., Beirut, Lebanon)Date | between 1890 and 1900 Dimensions | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.Accession number | LCCN2002724972Credit line | | This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID ppmsca.02663.David Daoud is a research analyst focusing on Hezbollah and Lebanon at United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI). His analyses have been widely published, including in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Haaretz, and NOW Lebanon.● https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/09/04/any-way-you-slice-it-hezbollah-had-a-very-bad-month/
● http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/263800-hariri-un-us-will-participate-in-negotiations-on-maritime-borders
● https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/08/20/taking-cue-from-hamas-hezbollah-brings-arson-terror-to-northern-border/
● https://www.thenational.ae/business/economy/lebanon-debt-downgrade-market-discipline-or-voluntary-reforms-1.901289
● https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-publishes-photos-purporting-to-show-hezbollah-precision-missile-factory/
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Sep 07 2019

Photo: Los Angeles County General Hospital, Los Angeles, CaliforniaSubjects: HospitalsPlaces: California > Los Angeles (county) > Los AngelesNotes: Title from item.Extent: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.Accession #: 06_10_009694Date | between circa 1930 and circa 1945 Source | Boston Public Library Tichnor Brothers collection #62698Author | Tichnor Brothers, PublisherThis work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1924 and 1977 without a copyright notice. Pacific Watch: California has not answered the homeless surge. Jeff Bliss.https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Despite-tsunami-of-need-some-beds-for-SF-s-14417800.php
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Sep 07 2019

Photo:IN THE WHALER AURORA 103 Sound, shortly after. The unscrupulous Erick, inorder to promote colonization, called the newcoimtry Greenland. A fleet of twenty-five sailstarted for the country with colonists. Many werelost, but about half of them settled there and werejoined by others, foraiing quite a colony. Christianity was introduced about 1121 and abishop was appointed. By degrees the colonistsin the south formed other colonies, churches werebuilt, and the people prospered for a time. Grant tells us in his history of Greenland thatthere were about one hundred hamlets on thesecoasts. The colonies on the east coast have dis-appeared. Some ruins have been found, but whereare the people ? Nothing has been heard definitelyfrom them since 1408, when the east Greenlandtrade ceased. Some think that black death des-troyed them, others say that polar ice, comingdown, closed the coast from intercourse with theparent country, so that they starved. Accordingto one Kojake, who has written on the suThis image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictionsexistRussian Floating Nuke Plant Powers the New Arctic Sea Lanes. Chris Gadomski, Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
https://www.rosatom.ru/en/press-centre/news/floating-nuclear-power-plant-the-akademik-lomonosov-has-received-an-operating-license-/...more

Sep 06 2019

Sep 06 2019

Image: Yale University's four-oared crew team, posing with the 1876 Centennial Regatta trophy. Public domain..Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover and Stanford; in re: Universities: From Icon to Just a Con, via American Greatness | The damage that the modern university has wrought has now outweighed its once-positive role. . . . . We don't need 18 million Americans in college right now.https://amgreatness.com/2019/09/01/from-icon-to-just-a-con/
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Sep 06 2019

Image: During the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovaks carry their national flag past a burning tank in Prague. Public domain: Photo from "CIA Analysis of the Warsaw Pact Forces: The Importance of Clandestine Reporting" For more information, visit the CIA's Historical Collections page .Sebastian Gorka, America First radio, & author, Why We Fight: In Hong Kong, a relatively small number of demonstrators, all unarmed, have forced Beijing to stand down. Khrushchev’s “secret speech” in March 1956 saying openly that Stalin was a monster opened the way for Hungary and Poland to rebel in October. Freedom for a glorious ten days until the Soviet creature sent in tanks to crush the freedom fighters. Thirty years later, the Soviet Union ceased to be, leading directly to independence for the Baltics, East Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. When Pres Trump’s said, “No more theft from us” to Xi Jinping, did that open the door for liberation movements in Hong Kong? Finally, America is back and is not kowtowing to the unelected tyrants of Beijing. Note that the Hong Kong demonstrators frequently sing the Star-Spangled Banner, and the sign on a balcony, “Make Hong Kong great again.” Hong Kong is a petri dish of what happens when people are able/allowed to claim freedom.There has to be a global reset of relations with this nation using egregious methods to steal. For the US, this is above all a matter of national security
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/04/asia/hong-kong-protests-withdrawal-intl-hnk/index.html
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Sep 06 2019

Image: City of Washington from Beyond the Navy Yard by George Cooke, 1833, on display in the White House Oval Office. Public domain..Devin Nunes, House Intelligence Committee, Ranking Member: The RICO civil suit filed in Eastern District of Virginia federal court against many parties, prominently Glenn Simpson of FusionGPS, which specializes in smear campaigns; it worked for DNC, Russian oligarchs, and people close to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, inter al. Working for or with Fusion GPS, the “Campaign for Accountability” hire people in media; against Devin, they weaponized the ethics process, three times in 2018. “They targeted my wife, a schoolteacher,” done by some fellow in Los Angeles. The group brought in over $2 mil, of which $140,000 went to FusionGPS. Who funded this group? They made ethics complaints against me based on allegations that only FusionGPS could know of. Close to these groups was the Clinton campaign. Anyone involved with FISA warrants, the Russian hoax – anyone in that realm might wish for quiet and donate to the Campaign for Accountability.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/devin-nunes-fusion-gps-lawsuit-rico
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Sep 06 2019

Image: Hôtel-Dieu de Paris c. 1500. The comparatively well patients (on the right) were separated from the very ill (on the left). Public domain..Much of the medical progress in the past half-century has involved expensive, high-tech diagnostic tests and therapies. But it would be a mistake to gainsay the value of inexpensive, low-tech innovations.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cutting-medical-costs-can-be-a-bargain-11567551537?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1

Sep 06 2019

Photo:‘(…) Bethlehem. The picture shows a man and a woman approaching Bethlehem with a donkey. It was taken on Christmas Day, 1898. The photograph presents a scene reminiscent of Mary and Joseph, as they approached Bethlehem some 1900 years earlier.’ (text from www.old-picture.com) Note: As the source shows a number of 1898 pictures ‘reminiscent’ of the biblical story in and around Bethlehem (featuring a couple, a donkey, sometimes a baby etc.) it seems likely that at least some of the pictures were staged.25 December 1898Source | www.old-picture.com (archive)Permission(Reusing this file) | | This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less.Jason Greenblatt and the plan for Palestinian success. Malcolm Hoenlein, @Conf_of_pres...more

Sep 06 2019

Image: The twelve Federal Reserve Banks buildings in 1936. Public domain..Richard Epstein, Chicago & NYU Law; Hoover. “On Friday, August 30, Trump confidently tweeted that anyone who thinks that his aggressive trade war with China could lead to a recession is sadly misinformed. He offered his own two-part explanation for a possible economic downturn. First, unnamed but ‘badly run and weak companies’ are being undone by their own incompetence. Second, their present plight has not been caused by the trade war, but rather by the Federal Reserve’s failure to rapidly cut interest rates. . . ." https://www.hoover.org/research/trumps-trade-travesty
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Sep 06 2019

Image: American business - General store, Deaf Smith County Museum in Hereford, Texas. Billy Hathorn, who took this photo with a Canon camera, writes: I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. [et seq.]* .Richard Epstein, Chicago & NYU Law; Hoover. What may be the causes of the slowdown? Pres Trump proposes three possibilities in a tweet: American companies are not very bright; or blame Jerome Powell and the Fed; or intl trade, with a problem coming to US – manufacturing sector (11% of US output) fell below 50, meaning it’s shrinking. This is also occurring in the UK and Germany, Japan and South Korea . . . https://www.hoover.org/research/trumps-trade-travesty..* You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
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Sep 06 2019

Image: Yutu, China's first moon rover, on the Moon; imaged by the Chang'e 3 lander. Fair use*.The Mysterious Discovery by Yutu-2https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/has-yutu-2-found-something-unusual/ *Fair use is a doctrine in the law of the United States that permits limited use of copyrighted material without having to first acquire permission from the copyright holder. Fair use is one of the limitations to copyright intended to balance the interests of copyright holders with the public interest in the wider distribution and use of creative works by allowing as a defense to copyright infringement claims certain limited uses that might otherwise be considered infringement
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Sep 05 2019

Image: Seal of Jammu and Kashmir. Public domain..Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs, in re: India. Jammu and Kashmir have lost their autonomous status, having been reclaimed by India. The Line of Control in the Kashmir region: India is strengthening its position there as Beijing is absorbed by Hong Kong. Has broken the Muslim stranglehold on Jammu and Kashmir – with no media attention, which Beijing can only dream about. Just when Beijing thought it had Pakistan all to itself, the Pakistani PM went to Washington and made a big hit, and the US promised more F16 supplies. The Pakistan land bridge is not as all-Chinese as China thought. Uzbekistan is developing warmer. Beijing is ham-handed in hits dealings with the pro-democracy demonstrators. Carrie Lam seems to show weakness; reflects badly on Beijing. In England, Hong Kong is the second news item after Brexit and BoJo. Australia: not a lot of comments there, but the newly-elected government has been very critical of Chinese intervention into Australian politics and daily life.
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Sep 05 2019

Image: The Iron Blood 18-star flag, the banner of the Wuchang uprising (zh:武昌起义) of October 10, 1911, subsequently used as the flag of the army of the Republic of China, ca. 1913-1928. It appears on many varieties of Chinese currency issued during the 1910's and 1920's. Public domain..
Claudia Rosett, Independent Women’s Forum, in re: Hong Kong. The Mainland government is informed about some aspects of democracy; certainly enough to refuse categorically to allow free elections. China has changed in that it’s richer; it’s not Communist, it’s a techno-repressive surveillance state. This is a warning to the entire world. The essential feature to Xi and his associates is power. Hong Kong citizens know of Xinjiang and the Uyghurs. The youth are facing guns, tanks, and the armaments of the state; they say they’re willing to die to succeed – the don't want a government that tells them how to think and how to live, and to stay silent. The propaganda-soaked fiction state; the protestors don’t want the propaganda and lies, they want truth and openness. Carrie Lam is a stooge of the devil; Hong Kong people hate her. At best, she’s a hood ornament; as a political fixture, they find her detestable.
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Sep 05 2019

Image: Sun Yat-sen, politician, physician and philosopher who provisionally served as the first president of the Republic of China; and the first leader of the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party of China). He’s referred as the "Father of the Nation" in the Republic of China. Public domain..Andrew Collier, managing director of Orient Capital Research in Hong Kong and author of Shadow Banking and the Rise of Capitalism in China, in re: the Hong Kong protests. Carrie Lam’s offer to withdraw the original extradition bill was widely well received; but large numbers of young people are angry. This looks as though it’ll drag on for a while. Companies have been hurt: airlines, tourism, rentals to tourists, and retail sector all have diminished, but the big multinationals are all right, Investment banks, retailers, and the like, if damaged financially, may have to leave. Carrie Lam’s earlier effort to quit and its having been denied by Beijing, which has hit back against a wall and doesn't know what to do. Will this affect Mainland in any way? Not much.
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Sep 05 2019

Image: Nanjing Road in Shanghai during the Xinhai Revolution. Public domain.
Created 31 December 1910; please see: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xinhai_Revolution_in_Shanghai.jpg.Arthur Waldron, Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania, on the Hong Kong protests. The Beijing leadership is broadly ignorant of how the rest of the world works – that the protestors will always win – and further are divided among themselves. No one in China believes what Xi Jinping says, although people have a strong sense of Chinese-ness. The leaders see that this is an ideological challenge; when the populace sees that it's being forced to live in a [constricted] way, it will be displeased. Deng Xiaoping thought that it’d be peaceable if the income rose – but the more income people have, the more they're likely to be interested in liberation.
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Sep 05 2019

Photo: (The photographer is believed to be deceased since image was taken in the 1800s, Image from Book old Hong Kong by Trea Wiltshire)Date | 19th century Source | See aboveFirebombing a Hong Kong newspaperman by unknowns. @GordonGChang @mschlapphttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-05/home-of-hong-kong-media-tycoon-hit-with-firebombs-cable-tv-says

Sep 05 2019

Photo:Roy Bean holding court while sitting on a barrel and holding his law book in 1900.Photographer not named - This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 530985.
"Judge Roy Bean, the `Law West of the Pecos,' holding court at the old town of Langtry, Texas in 1900, trying a horse thief. This building was courthouse and saloon. No other peace officers in the locality at that time."
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Comey judged. @AndrewCMcarthy @ThaddeusMcCotterhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/the-doj-will-not-prosecute-james-comey-over-trump-memos/
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Sep 05 2019

Image: Shuttle Discovery launching from Pad 39A on STS-60, February 3, 1994. Public domain..Tomorrow, the Trump administration will formally inaugurate the newest U.S. Combatant Command, U.S. Space Command. The occasion is a momentous one, because it marks the first, and long overdue, step toward a serious space policy on the part of the United States. Yet America’s move into the “final frontier” is still missing an essential ingredient: a vision of what we seek to accomplish there. . . .
Peter Garretson is an independent strategy consultant who focuses on space and defense, and a senior Fellow in Defense Studies with the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC). He was previously the director of Air University’s Space Horizons Task Force, America’s think tank for space, and was deputy director of America’s premier space strategy program, the Schriever Scholars. https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/459066-us-space-command-a-vision-for-the-final-frontier
See also: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwDqxQcqDgVQjqqcXzrflcwTnPC?projector=1
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Sep 05 2019

Image: The Vigilant Stuyvesant's Wall Street Gate, 19th-century painting by John Quidor. This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission..
Jeffrey Epstein’s Road Through Wall Street Was a Bumpy One. Further, he was described as “dreadful, exhausting and abusive”. @GZuckerman @WSJGregory Zuckerman is a Special Writer at The Wall Street Journal. He writes about big financial trades, hedge funds, private-equity firms and other investing and business topics. In the past, Greg wrote the "Heard on the Street" column and covered the credit markets for the paper.https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeffrey-epsteins-road-through-wall-street-a-bumpy-one-11566984602
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Sep 04 2019

Image: Air Force Space Command. Public domain (afspc.af.mil)..
Maj. Gen. Chris Azzano tells Popular Mechanics that he secured Air Force funding to create a space curriculum for the Test Pilot School. The Air Force’s Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base has existed at the leading edge of the aerospace’s newest technologies for 75 years. Now, as the Pentagon focuses on the military importance of Earth’s orbit, the institution is forming a new school specializing in space hardware.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a28898339/air-force-space-pilot-school/
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Sep 04 2019

Image: Earliest Democratic Party; 1837 political caricature, "The modern Balaam and his ass," which uses the Biblical story of Balaam (from the book of Numbers) to satirize the end of the Andrew Jackson presidency. Public domain..The Next Democratic Debate: 10 In, 10 Out . . . Five More Who Should Go. How’d the Democrats manage to pull off this political liposuction? Bill Whalen, Hoover & Area 45.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2019/08/29/the-next-democratic-presidential-debate-10-in-10-out----and-five-more-who-should-go/#7c0783f0aab2Attachments area
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Sep 04 2019

Image: Settlement of Iowa: a land offer from the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad, 1872. Public domain..Elizabeth Peek, TheHill & Fox News: "Do we think we have to win Iowa? No," said one Biden campaign aide speaking to reporters. "Do we want to win Iowa? Yes, we do. We think we're going to win; we know it's going to be a dogfight. The same thing is true in New Hampshire."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/03/politics/joe-biden-campaign-2020-iowa-new-hampshire/index.html

Sep 04 2019

Image: Revolutionary-era cartoon showing US sawing of the horn of a cow (symbolizing a break from British commerce) with a distressed Englishman watching as other European powers wait to collect milk. The cartoon represents the commercial status of the US during the Revolution. Public Domain
.Elizabeth Peek, TheHill & Fox News: U.S. Factory Activity Shrinks for First Time in 3 Years. The American consumer is comfortable spending, keeping the US economy still apparently the best in the world. Which brings in ocean of investment money from the rest of the world. What recession? https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-factory-activity-contracted-in-august-11567521651?mod=hp_lead_pos2
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Sep 04 2019

Image: Calvin and Grace Coolidge, about 1918. Public domain..
Coolidge Audiobook, by Amity Shlaes, with Terence Aselford (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Coolidge/dp/B00B296P5W/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Calvin Coolidge, president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls, and history has remembered the decade in which he served as an extravagant period predating the Great Depression. Now Amity Shlaes provides a fresh look at the 1920s and its elusive president, showing that the mid-1920s was in fact a triumphant period that established our modern way of life: The nation electrified, Americans drove their first cars, and the federal deficit was replaced with a surplus.
Coolidge is an eye-opening biography of the little-known president behind that era of remarkable growth and national optimism. Coolidge's trademark discipline and composure, Shlaes reveals, represented not weakness but strength, and he proved unafraid to take on the divisive issues of this crucial period: reining in public-sector unions, unrelentingly curtailing spending, and rejecting funding for new interest groups. He reduced the federal budget even as the economy grew, wages rose, taxes fell, and unemployment dropped. In this magisterial biography, Amity Shlaes captures the remarkable story of Calvin Coolidge and the decade of extraordinary prosperity that grew from his leadership.
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Sep 04 2019

Image: Coolidge's cabinet in 1924, outside the White House. Front row, left to right: Harry Stewart New, John W. Weeks, Charles Evans Hughes, Coolidge, Andrew Mellon, Harlan F. Stone, Curtis D. Wilbur. Back row, left to right: James J. Davis, Henry C. Wallace, Herbert Hoover, Hubert Work. Public domain..
Coolidge Audiobook, by Amity Shlaes, with Terence Aselford (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Coolidge/dp/B00B296P5W/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Calvin Coolidge, president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls, and history has remembered the decade in which he served as an extravagant period predating the Great Depression. Now Amity Shlaes provides a fresh look at the 1920s and its elusive president, showing that the mid-1920s was in fact a triumphant period that established our modern way of life: The nation electrified, Americans drove their first cars, and the federal deficit was replaced with a surplus.
Coolidge is an eye-opening biography of the little-known president behind that era of remarkable growth and national optimism. Coolidge's trademark discipline and composure, Shlaes reveals, represented not weakness but strength, and he proved unafraid to take on the divisive issues of this crucial period: reining in public-sector unions, unrelentingly curtailing spending, and rejecting funding for new interest groups. He reduced the federal budget even as the economy grew, wages rose, taxes fell, and unemployment dropped. In this magisterial biography, Amity Shlaes captures the remarkable story of Calvin Coolidge and the decade of extraordinary prosperity that grew from his leadership.
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Sep 04 2019

Image: Coolidge inspects militia in Boston police strike. Public domain..
Coolidge Audiobook, by Amity Shlaes, with Terence Aselford (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Coolidge/dp/B00B296P5W/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Calvin Coolidge, president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls, and history has remembered the decade in which he served as an extravagant period predating the Great Depression. Now Amity Shlaes provides a fresh look at the 1920s and its elusive president, showing that the mid-1920s was in fact a triumphant period that established our modern way of life: The nation electrified, Americans drove their first cars, and the federal deficit was replaced with a surplus.
Coolidge is an eye-opening biography of the little-known president behind that era of remarkable growth and national optimism. Coolidge's trademark discipline and composure, Shlaes reveals, represented not weakness but strength, and he proved unafraid to take on the divisive issues of this crucial period: reining in public-sector unions, unrelentingly curtailing spending, and rejecting funding for new interest groups. He reduced the federal budget even as the economy grew, wages rose, taxes fell, and unemployment dropped. In this magisterial biography, Amity Shlaes captures the remarkable story of Calvin Coolidge and the decade of extraordinary prosperity that grew from his leadership.
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Sep 04 2019

Image: Osage men with Coolidge after he signed the bill granting Native Americans U.S. citizenship. Public domain..
Coolidge Audiobook, by Amity Shlaes, with Terence Aselford (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Coolidge/dp/B00B296P5W/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Calvin Coolidge, president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls, and history has remembered the decade in which he served as an extravagant period predating the Great Depression. Now Amity Shlaes provides a fresh look at the 1920s and its elusive president, showing that the mid-1920s was in fact a triumphant period that established our modern way of life: The nation electrified, Americans drove their first cars, and the federal deficit was replaced with a surplus.
Coolidge is an eye-opening biography of the little-known president behind that era of remarkable growth and national optimism. Coolidge's trademark discipline and composure, Shlaes reveals, represented not weakness but strength, and he proved unafraid to take on the divisive issues of this crucial period: reining in public-sector unions, unrelentingly curtailing spending, and rejecting funding for new interest groups. He reduced the federal budget even as the economy grew, wages rose, taxes fell, and unemployment dropped. In this magisterial biography, Amity Shlaes captures the remarkable story of Calvin Coolidge and the decade of extraordinary prosperity that grew from his leadership.
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Sep 03 2019

Image: The modern coat of arms of Moscow (adopted 1993) shows Saint George and the Dragon, based on a heraldic tradition originating in the 11th century with Yaroslav I of Kiev and adopted by the rulers of Vladimir-Suzdal in the 12th century (Alexander Nevsky) and eventually by Muscovy in the 14th century (Dmitry Donskoy). Public domain..
Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy
https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW.
The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion. Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign. Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election. Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years. Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election. They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?
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Sep 03 2019

Image: Robert S. Mueller, III, director of the FBI from 2001 to 2013, was appointed in May 2017 as special counsel. FBI photo; public domain..
Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy
https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW. The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion. Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign. Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election. Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years. Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election. They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?
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Sep 03 2019

Image: The Houses of Parliament from old Westminster Bridge in the early 1890s. Public domain..
Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy
https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW.
The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion. Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign. Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election. Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years. Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election. They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?
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Sep 03 2019

Image: Rep Devin Nunes, Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee; 2015 to 2019: Chair of the House Intelligence Committee. In February 2018, Nunes publicly released the Nunes memo, a four-page memorandum alleging a Federal Bureau of Investigation conspiracy against Donald Trump. Public domain..
Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy
https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW.
The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion. Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign. Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.
Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years. Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election. They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?
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Sep 03 2019

Image: Flag of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), which contains the Department's seal, as follows: "the . . . flag shall consist of a rectangular base background of ultramarine blue, bearing an eagle on a shield, a scroll and the inscription 'Department of Justice.' The eagle faces to the left, with its left claw holding 13 arrows with the tips facing down. Its right claw holds an olive branch. The shield consists of a white base, a blue chief and six scarlet stripes. The scroll shall read in bold blue letters, 'QUI PRO DOMINA JUSTITIA SEQUITUR'”.
Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy
https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW.
The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion. Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign. Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.
Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.. Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election. They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?
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Sep 03 2019

Image: The White House as it looked following the fire of August 24, 1814. Public domain..
Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy
https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW. The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion. Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign. Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election. Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years. Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election. They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?
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Sep 03 2019

Image: Red Square in Moscow, 1801.
Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy
https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW. The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion. Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign. Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election. Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years. Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election. They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?
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Sep 03 2019

Image: The badge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Public domain..
Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy
https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW. The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion. Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign. Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election. Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years. Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election. They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?
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Sep 03 2019

Photo: J Edgar Hoover in a suit. Public domain..
Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy
https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW. The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The media-Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion. Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign. Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election. Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.. Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And, if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election. They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?
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Sep 03 2019

Image: Donald J Trump is sworn in as president by Chief Justice John Roberts on January 20, 2017. Public domain (White House photographer - Official White House Facebook page). .
Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion. Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign. Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election. Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years. Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election. They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?
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Sep 03 2019

Image: Redacted policy guide for the Counterterrorism Division (part of the FBI National Security Branch). Public domain..
Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy
https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW. The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The media-Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion. Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign. Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election. Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.. Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election. They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?
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Sep 03 2019

Image: Ex-FBI Director James-Comey’s memo. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties..
Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy
https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW. The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion. Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign. Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election. Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years. Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election. They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?
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Sep 02 2019

Photo:A Public House.Date | circa 1770 Medium | brown pen and ink with watercolorDimensions | Height: 19 cm (7.4 ″); Width: 24.1 cm (9.4 ″)Paul Sandby RA (1731 – 9 November 1809) was an English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours, who, along with his older brother Thomas, became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768.[1]This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or The Food Police: 1 of 2: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate by Jayson Lusk.https://www.amazon.com/Food-Police-Well-Fed-Manifesto-Politics/dp/0307987035/ref=mthardcover?encoding=UTF8&amp;me=
“This is hard hitting and to the point., And scary. The Food and Drug Administration is mainly known for its activities that "protect" consumers from new and beneficial drugs. But, as Jayson Lusk, shows in powerful and pointed detail, the FDA creates massive levels of mischief and confusion through its misguided regulation of food and drink. Chocked-filled with telling anecdotes, and informed by strong economic theory, Lusk offers a compelling expose of government misadventure that tends to hurt the very people whom it is said to protect.” - Richard Epstein, law professor at university of Chicago and author of several books
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Sep 02 2019

Photo: Halfway House, Sadler's WellsArchitectural subjectDate | 1780The author died in 1809, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less.The Food Police: 2 of 2: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate by Jayson Lusk.https://www.amazon.com/Food-Police-Well-Fed-Manifesto-Politics/dp/0307987035/ref=mthardcover?encoding=UTF8&me=
“This is hard hitting and to the point., And scary. The Food and Drug Administration is mainly known for its activities that "protect" consumers from new and beneficial drugs. But, as Jayson Lusk, shows in powerful and pointed detail, the FDA creates massive levels of mischief and confusion through its misguided regulation of food and drink. Chocked-filled with telling anecdotes, and informed by strong economic theory, Lusk offers a compelling expose of government misadventure that tends to hurt the very people whom it is said to protect.” - Richard Epstein, law professor at university of Chicago and author of several books
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Sep 02 2019

Image: "The Dunkirk Pirate" Gustavus Conyngham, who captured 24 ships in the eastern Atlantic between May 1777 and May 1778, bringing the expenses associated with British shipping to a then-all-time high. He has been called "the most successful of all Continental Navy captains." Here, Captain Gustavus Conyngham, Continental Navy; Eighteenth Century print, after a miniature portrait by Louis Marie Sicardi. Public domain..
Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tim McGrath (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), Gildan Media, LLC (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Give-Fast-Ship-Continental-Revolution/dp/B00LC91Z66/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Give+me+a+fast+ship+mcgrath&amp;qid=1567292316&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1 America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution - or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England's King George sent hundreds of ships westward to bottle up American harbors and prey on American shipping. Colonists had no force to defend their coastline and waterways until John Adams of Massachusetts proposed a bold solution: The Continental Congress should raise a navy. The idea was mad. The Royal Navy was the mightiest floating arsenal in history, with a seemingly endless supply of vessels. More than a hundred of these were massive "ships of the line," bristling with up to a hundred high-powered cannon that could level a city. The British were confident that His Majesty's warships would quickly bring the rebellious colonials to their knees. They were wrong. Beginning with five converted merchantmen, America's sailors became formidable warriors, matching their wits, skills, and courage against the best of the British fleet. Victories off American shores gave the patriots hope - victories led by captains such as John Barry, the fiery Irish-born giant; fearless Nicholas Biddle, who stared down an armed mutineer; and James Nicholson, the underachiever who finally redeemed himself with an inspiring display of coolness and bravery. Meanwhile, along the British coastline, daring raids by handsome, cocksure John Paul Jones and the "Dunkirk Pirate," Gustavus Conyngham - who was captured and sentenced to hang but tunneled under his cell and escaped to fight again - sent fear throughout England. The adventures of these men and others on both sides of the struggle rival anything from Horatio Hornblower or Lucky Jack Aubrey. Meticulously researched and masterfully told, Give Me a Fast Ship is a rousing, epic tale of war on the high seas - and the definitive history of the American Navy during the Revolutionary War.
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Sep 02 2019

Portrait: Nicholas Biddle was one of the first five captains of the Continental Navy, which was raised by the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War. Her: portrait of Captain Nicholas Biddle by Orlando S. Lagman. Public domain..
Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tim McGrath (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), Gildan Media, LLC (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Give-Fast-Ship-Continental-Revolution/dp/B00LC91Z66/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Give+me+a+fast+ship+mcgrath&amp;qid=1567292316&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1 America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution - or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England's King George sent hundreds of ships westward to bottle up American harbors and prey on American shipping. Colonists had no force to defend their coastline and waterways until John Adams of Massachusetts proposed a bold solution: The Continental Congress should raise a navy. The idea was mad. The Royal Navy was the mightiest floating arsenal in history, with a seemingly endless supply of vessels. More than a hundred of these were massive "ships of the line," bristling with up to a hundred high-powered cannon that could level a city. The British were confident that His Majesty's warships would quickly bring the rebellious colonials to their knees. They were wrong. Beginning with five converted merchantmen, America's sailors became formidable warriors, matching their wits, skills, and courage against the best of the British fleet. Victories off American shores gave the patriots hope - victories led by captains such as John Barry, the fiery Irish-born giant; fearless Nicholas Biddle, who stared down an armed mutineer; and James Nicholson, the underachiever who finally redeemed himself with an inspiring display of coolness and bravery. Meanwhile, along the British coastline, daring raids by handsome, cocksure John Paul Jones and the "Dunkirk Pirate," Gustavus Conyngham - who was captured and sentenced to hang but tunneled under his cell and escaped to fight again - sent fear throughout England. The adventures of these men and others on both sides of the struggle rival anything from Horatio Hornblower or Lucky Jack Aubrey. Meticulously researched and masterfully told, Give Me a Fast Ship is a rousing, epic tale of war on the high seas - and the definitive history of the American Navy during the Revolutionary War.
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Sep 02 2019

Painting: Battle of Valcour Island in the American Revolutionary War. National Archives of Canada. Public domain..
Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tim McGrath (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), Gildan Media, LLC (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Give-Fast-Ship-Continental-Revolution/dp/B00LC91Z66/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Give+me+a+fast+ship+mcgrath&qid=1567292316&s=audible&sr=1-1 America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution - or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England's King George sent hundreds of ships westward to bottle up American harbors and prey on American shipping. Colonists had no force to defend their coastline and waterways until John Adams of Massachusetts proposed a bold solution: The Continental Congress should raise a navy. The idea was mad. The Royal Navy was the mightiest floating arsenal in history, with a seemingly endless supply of vessels. More than a hundred of these were massive "ships of the line," bristling with up to a hundred high-powered cannon that could level a city. The British were confident that His Majesty's warships would quickly bring the rebellious colonials to their knees. They were wrong. Beginning with five converted merchantmen, America's sailors became formidable warriors, matching their wits, skills, and courage against the best of the British fleet. Victories off American shores gave the patriots hope - victories led by captains such as John Barry, the fiery Irish-born giant; fearless Nicholas Biddle, who stared down an armed mutineer; and James Nicholson, the underachiever who finally redeemed himself with an inspiring display of coolness and bravery. Meanwhile, along the British coastline, daring raids by handsome, cocksure John Paul Jones and the "Dunkirk Pirate," Gustavus Conyngham - who was captured and sentenced to hang but tunneled under his cell and escaped to fight again - sent fear throughout England. The adventures of these men and others on both sides of the struggle rival anything from Horatio Hornblower or Lucky Jack Aubrey. Meticulously researched and masterfully told, Give Me a Fast Ship is a rousing, epic tale of war on the high seas - and the definitive history of the American Navy during the Revolutionary War.
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Sep 02 2019

Portrait: John Paul Jones, the Continental Navy's first seaman to be appointed the rank of 1st Lieutenant. Oil painting by George Bagby Matthews, c. 1890. Public domain..
Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tim McGrath (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), Gildan Media, LLC (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Give-Fast-Ship-Continental-Revolution/dp/B00LC91Z66/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Give+me+a+fast+ship+mcgrath&qid=1567292316&s=audible&amp;sr=1-1 America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution - or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England's King George sent hundreds of ships westward to bottle up American harbors and prey on American shipping. Colonists had no force to defend their coastline and waterways until John Adams of Massachusetts proposed a bold solution: The Continental Congress should raise a navy. The idea was mad. The Royal Navy was the mightiest floating arsenal in history, with a seemingly endless supply of vessels. More than a hundred of these were massive "ships of the line," bristling with up to a hundred high-powered cannon that could level a city. The British were confident that His Majesty's warships would quickly bring the rebellious colonials to their knees. They were wrong. Beginning with five converted merchantmen, America's sailors became formidable warriors, matching their wits, skills, and courage against the best of the British fleet. Victories off American shores gave the patriots hope - victories led by captains such as John Barry, the fiery Irish-born giant; fearless Nicholas Biddle, who stared down an armed mutineer; and James Nicholson, the underachiever who finally redeemed himself with an inspiring display of coolness and bravery. Meanwhile, along the British coastline, daring raids by handsome, cocksure John Paul Jones and the "Dunkirk Pirate," Gustavus Conyngham - who was captured and sentenced to hang but tunneled under his cell and escaped to fight again - sent fear throughout England. The adventures of these men and others on both sides of the struggle rival anything from Horatio Hornblower or Lucky Jack Aubrey. Meticulously researched and masterfully told, Give Me a Fast Ship is a rousing, epic tale of war on the high seas - and the definitive history of the American Navy during the Revolutionary War.
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Sep 02 2019

Image: Continental ship Columbus with captured British brig Lord Lifford, 1776. Public domain (USA Dept of the Navy, Naval Historical Center)..
Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tim McGrath (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), Gildan Media, LLC (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Give-Fast-Ship-Continental-Revolution/dp/B00LC91Z66/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Give+me+a+fast+ship+mcgrath&qid=1567292316&s=audible&sr=1-1 America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution - or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England's King George sent hundreds of ships westward to bottle up American harbors and prey on American shipping. Colonists had no force to defend their coastline and waterways until John Adams of Massachusetts proposed a bold solution: The Continental Congress should raise a navy. The idea was mad. The Royal Navy was the mightiest floating arsenal in history, with a seemingly endless supply of vessels. More than a hundred of these were massive "ships of the line," bristling with up to a hundred high-powered cannon that could level a city. The British were confident that His Majesty's warships would quickly bring the rebellious colonials to their knees. They were wrong. Beginning with five converted merchantmen, America's sailors became formidable warriors, matching their wits, skills, and courage against the best of the British fleet. Victories off American shores gave the patriots hope - victories led by captains such as John Barry, the fiery Irish-born giant; fearless Nicholas Biddle, who stared down an armed mutineer; and James Nicholson, the underachiever who finally redeemed himself with an inspiring display of coolness and bravery. Meanwhile, along the British coastline, daring raids by handsome, cocksure John Paul Jones and the "Dunkirk Pirate," Gustavus Conyngham - who was captured and sentenced to hang but tunneled under his cell and escaped to fight again - sent fear throughout England. The adventures of these men and others on both sides of the struggle rival anything from Horatio Hornblower or Lucky Jack Aubrey. Meticulously researched and masterfully told, Give Me a Fast Ship is a rousing, epic tale of war on the high seas - and the definitive history of the American Navy during the Revolutionary War.
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Sep 02 2019

Image: The Continental Navy was the navy of the United States during the American Revolutionary War, and was formed in 1775. The fleet cumulatively became relatively substantial through the efforts of the Continental Navy's patron John Adams and vigorous Congressional support in the face of stiff opposition, when considering the limitations imposed upon the Patriot supply pool. The official Navy officer uniform of 1776 had red lapels and a red waistcoat. The unofficial uniform of 1777, worn by many officers, had white lapels and a white waistcoat, and in addition non-regulation epaulets. Public domain..
Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tim McGrath (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), Gildan Media, LLC (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Give-Fast-Ship-Continental-Revolution/dp/B00LC91Z66/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Give+me+a+fast+ship+mcgrath&amp;qid=1567292316&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1 America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution - or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England's King George sent hundreds of ships westward to bottle up American harbors and prey on American shipping. Colonists had no force to defend their coastline and waterways until John Adams of Massachusetts proposed a bold solution: The Continental Congress should raise a navy. The idea was mad. The Royal Navy was the mightiest floating arsenal in history, with a seemingly endless supply of vessels. More than a hundred of these were massive "ships of the line," bristling with up to a hundred high-powered cannon that could level a city. The British were confident that His Majesty's warships would quickly bring the rebellious colonials to their knees. They were wrong. Beginning with five converted merchantmen, America's sailors became formidable warriors, matching their wits, skills, and courage against the best of the British fleet. Victories off American shores gave the patriots hope - victories led by captains such as John Barry, the fiery Irish-born giant; fearless Nicholas Biddle, who stared down an armed mutineer; and James Nicholson, the underachiever who finally redeemed himself with an inspiring display of coolness and bravery. Meanwhile, along the British coastline, daring raids by handsome, cocksure John Paul Jones and the "Dunkirk Pirate," Gustavus Conyngham - who was captured and sentenced to hang but tunneled under his cell and escaped to fight again - sent fear throughout England. The adventures of these men and others on both sides of the struggle rival anything from Horatio Hornblower or Lucky Jack Aubrey. Meticulously researched and masterfully told, Give Me a Fast Ship is a rousing, epic tale of war on the high seas - and the definitive history of the American Navy during the Revolutionary War.
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Sep 02 2019

Painting: The "seventy-four" was a type of two-decked sailing ship of the line that nominally carried 74 guns. The Bellona-class ships of the line were a class of five 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade. Here, left to right: HMS Marlborough, HMS Dragon, HMS Cambridge. Public domain..
Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tim McGrath (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), Gildan Media, LLC (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Give-Fast-Ship-Continental-Revolution/dp/B00LC91Z66/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Give+me+a+fast+ship+mcgrath&amp;qid=1567292316&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1 America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution - or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England's King George sent hundreds of ships westward to bottle up American harbors and prey on American shipping. Colonists had no force to defend their coastline and waterways until John Adams of Massachusetts proposed a bold solution: The Continental Congress should raise a navy. The idea was mad. The Royal Navy was the mightiest floating arsenal in history, with a seemingly endless supply of vessels. More than a hundred of these were massive "ships of the line," bristling with up to a hundred high-powered cannon that could level a city. The British were confident that His Majesty's warships would quickly bring the rebellious colonials to their knees. They were wrong. Beginning with five converted merchantmen, America's sailors became formidable warriors, matching their wits, skills, and courage against the best of the British fleet. Victories off American shores gave the patriots hope - victories led by captains such as John Barry, the fiery Irish-born giant; fearless Nicholas Biddle, who stared down an armed mutineer; and James Nicholson, the underachiever who finally redeemed himself with an inspiring display of coolness and bravery. Meanwhile, along the British coastline, daring raids by handsome, cocksure John Paul Jones and the "Dunkirk Pirate," Gustavus Conyngham - who was captured and sentenced to hang but tunneled under his cell and escaped to fight again - sent fear throughout England. The adventures of these men and others on both sides of the struggle rival anything from Horatio Hornblower or Lucky Jack Aubrey. Meticulously researched and masterfully told, Give Me a Fast Ship is a rousing, epic tale of war on the high seas - and the definitive history of the American Navy during the Revolutionary War.
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Sep 02 2019

Painting: U.S. ship of the Line Pennsylvania, 140 guns. New York: Published by N. Currier. Currier & Ives lithograph, 1846. Public domain..
Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tim McGrath (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), Gildan Media, LLC (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Give-Fast-Ship-Continental-Revolution/dp/B00LC91Z66/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Give+me+a+fast+ship+mcgrath&qid=1567292316&s=audible&sr=1-1 America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution - or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England's King George sent hundreds of ships westward to bottle up American harbors and prey on American shipping. Colonists had no force to defend their coastline and waterways until John Adams of Massachusetts proposed a bold solution: The Continental Congress should raise a navy. The idea was mad. The Royal Navy was the mightiest floating arsenal in history, with a seemingly endless supply of vessels. More than a hundred of these were massive "ships of the line," bristling with up to a hundred high-powered cannon that could level a city. The British were confident that His Majesty's warships would quickly bring the rebellious colonials to their knees. They were wrong. Beginning with five converted merchantmen, America's sailors became formidable warriors, matching their wits, skills, and courage against the best of the British fleet. Victories off American shores gave the patriots hope - victories led by captains such as John Barry, the fiery Irish-born giant; fearless Nicholas Biddle, who stared down an armed mutineer; and James Nicholson, the underachiever who finally redeemed himself with an inspiring display of coolness and bravery. Meanwhile, along the British coastline, daring raids by handsome, cocksure John Paul Jones and the "Dunkirk Pirate," Gustavus Conyngham - who was captured and sentenced to hang but tunneled under his cell and escaped to fight again - sent fear throughout England. The adventures of these men and others on both sides of the struggle rival anything from Horatio Hornblower or Lucky Jack Aubrey. Meticulously researched and masterfully told, Give Me a Fast Ship is a rousing, epic tale of war on the high seas - and the definitive history of the American Navy during the Revolutionary War....more

Sep 01 2019

Photo: Two women or goddesses on a chariot. Fresco from Tiryns, 1200 BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.View author information
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Aug 31 2019

Image: Familienwappen Habsburg-Stroehl – Coat of Arms of the Counts of Habsburg. Public domain..
A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Catastrophe-Outbreak-Collapse-Habsburg-dp-B00N53LUN0/dp/B00N53LUN0/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself - both equally ripe for destruction. After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything - the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London - hinged on the Habsburgs' ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf, the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided. Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a riveting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history.
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Aug 31 2019

Image: Wedding of Archduke Charles of Austria and Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma in Schwarzau Palace, 21 October 1911. Public domain..
A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Catastrophe-Outbreak-Collapse-Habsburg-dp-B00N53LUN0/dp/B00N53LUN0/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself - both equally ripe for destruction. After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything - the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London - hinged on the Habsburgs' ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf, the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided. Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a riveting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history.
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Aug 31 2019

Image: Arms of the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen (1867–1915), Public domain. .
A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Catastrophe-Outbreak-Collapse-Habsburg-dp-B00N53LUN0/dp/B00N53LUN0/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself - both equally ripe for destruction. After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything - the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London - hinged on the Habsburgs' ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf, the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided. Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a riveting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history.
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Aug 31 2019

Image: Europa regina, symbolizing a Habsburg-dominated Europe. Public domain..
A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Catastrophe-Outbreak-Collapse-Habsburg-dp-B00N53LUN0/dp/B00N53LUN0/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself - both equally ripe for destruction. After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything - the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London - hinged on the Habsburgs' ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf, the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided. Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a riveting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history.
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Aug 31 2019

Image: King Charles IV of Hungary taking his coronation oath at Holy Trinity Column outside Matthias Church, Budapest, 30 December 1916. To the left is Cardinal János Csernoch, Archbishop of Esztergom and Primate of Hungary..
A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Catastrophe-Outbreak-Collapse-Habsburg-dp-B00N53LUN0/dp/B00N53LUN0/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&amp;me=&amp;qid= The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself - both equally ripe for destruction. After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything - the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London - hinged on the Habsburgs' ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf, the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided. Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a riveting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history.
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Aug 31 2019

Image: Icon representing prince Jovan Vladimir, the first canonized Serb (Medieval fresco). Public domain..
A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)
https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Catastrophe-Outbreak-Collapse-Habsburg-dp-B00N53LUN0/dp/B00N53LUN0/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=
The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself - both equally ripe for destruction. After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything - the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London - hinged on the Habsburgs' ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf, the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided. Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a riveting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history.
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Aug 31 2019

Photo: Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, who bungled everything, in Hussar uniform; undated. Credit: Library of Congress. Public domain..
A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Catastrophe-Outbreak-Collapse-Habsburg-dp-B00N53LUN0/dp/B00N53LUN0/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself - both equally ripe for destruction. After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything - the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London - hinged on the Habsburgs' ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf, the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided. Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a riveting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history.
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Aug 31 2019

Image: Austro-Hungarian soldiers resting in trench warfare; from the Bulgarian Archives State Agency. Public domain..
A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Catastrophe-Outbreak-Collapse-Habsburg-dp-B00N53LUN0/dp/B00N53LUN0/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself - both equally ripe for destruction. After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything - the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London - hinged on the Habsburgs' ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf, the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided. Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a riveting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history.
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Aug 31 2019

Image: The Kennedy family at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts in 1931, with Jack at top left in the white shirt. Ted was born the following year. Photograph by Richard Sears in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. Public domain..
Dallas 1963: Patriots, Traitors, and the Assassination of JFK ; Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.Bill Minutaglio (Author, Narrator), Steven L. Davis (Author, Narrator), & 2 more
https://www.amazon.com/Dallas-1963-Patriots-Traitors-Assassination/dp/B00HAAWAVK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Dallas+1963&amp;qid=1567204334&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1In the months and weeks before the fateful November 22, 1963, Dallas was brewing with political passions, a city crammed with larger-than-life characters dead-set against the Kennedy presidency. These included rabid warriors like defrocked military general Edwin A. Walker; the world's richest oil baron, H. L. Hunt; the leader of the largest Baptist congregation in the world, W. A. Criswell; and the media mogul Ted Dealey, who raucously confronted JFK and whose family name adorns the plaza where the president was murdered. On the same stage was a compelling cast of marauding gangsters, swashbuckling politicos, unsung civil rights heroes, and a stylish millionaire anxious to save his doomed city. Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis ingeniously explore the swirling forces that led many people to warn President Kennedy to avoid Dallas on his fateful trip to Texas. Breathtakingly paced, Dallas 1963 presents a clear, cinematic, and revelatory look at the shocking tragedy that transformed America. Countless authors have attempted to explain the assassination, but no one has ever bothered to explain Dallas - until now. With spellbinding storytelling, Minutaglio and Davis lead us through intimate glimpses of the Kennedy family and the machinations of the Kennedy White House, to the obsessed men in Dallas who concocted the climate of hatred that led many to blame the city for the president's death. Here at long last is an accurate understanding of what happened in the weeks and months leading to John F. Kennedy's assassination. Dallas 1963 is not only a fresh look at a momentous national tragedy but a sobering reminder of how radical, polarizing ideologies can poison a city - and a nation.
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Aug 31 2019

Image: Picture of President Kennedy in the limousine in Dallas, Texas, on Main Street, minutes before the assassination. Also in the presidential limousine are Jackie Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and his wife, Nellie. Walt Cisco, Dallas Morning News - http://www.mojsrbac.info/media/articles/adde2-kenedi-ded.jpg Public domain (copyright expired in 1991; without renewal)..
Dallas 1963: Patriots, Traitors, and the Assassination of JFK ; Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.Bill Minutaglio (Author, Narrator), Steven L. Davis (Author, Narrator), &amp; 2 more
https://www.amazon.com/Dallas-1963-Patriots-Traitors-Assassination/dp/B00HAAWAVK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Dallas+1963&amp;qid=1567204334&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1In the months and weeks before the fateful November 22, 1963, Dallas was brewing with political passions, a city crammed with larger-than-life characters dead-set against the Kennedy presidency. These included rabid warriors like defrocked military general Edwin A. Walker; the world's richest oil baron, H. L. Hunt; the leader of the largest Baptist congregation in the world, W. A. Criswell; and the media mogul Ted Dealey, who raucously confronted JFK and whose family name adorns the plaza where the president was murdered. On the same stage was a compelling cast of marauding gangsters, swashbuckling politicos, unsung civil rights heroes, and a stylish millionaire anxious to save his doomed city. Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis ingeniously explore the swirling forces that led many people to warn President Kennedy to avoid Dallas on his fateful trip to Texas. Breathtakingly paced, Dallas 1963 presents a clear, cinematic, and revelatory look at the shocking tragedy that transformed America. Countless authors have attempted to explain the assassination, but no one has ever bothered to explain Dallas - until now. With spellbinding storytelling, Minutaglio and Davis lead us through intimate glimpses of the Kennedy family and the machinations of the Kennedy White House, to the obsessed men in Dallas who concocted the climate of hatred that led many to blame the city for the president's death. Here at long last is an accurate understanding of what happened in the weeks and months leading to John F. Kennedy's assassination. Dallas 1963 is not only a fresh look at a momentous national tragedy but a sobering reminder of how radical, polarizing ideologies can poison a city - and a nation.
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Aug 31 2019

Image: Kennedy speaking at Rice University in Houston on September 12, 1962. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson can be seen behind him. Pubic domain..
Dallas 1963: Patriots, Traitors, and the Assassination of JFK ; Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Bill Minutaglio (Author, Narrator), Steven L. Davis (Author, Narrator), & 2 more
https://www.amazon.com/Dallas-1963-Patriots-Traitors-Assassination/dp/B00HAAWAVK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Dallas+1963&qid=1567204334&s=audible&sr=1-1In the months and weeks before the fateful November 22, 1963, Dallas was brewing with political passions, a city crammed with larger-than-life characters dead-set against the Kennedy presidency. These included rabid warriors like defrocked military general Edwin A. Walker; the world's richest oil baron, H. L. Hunt; the leader of the largest Baptist congregation in the world, W. A. Criswell; and the media mogul Ted Dealey, who raucously confronted JFK and whose family name adorns the plaza where the president was murdered. On the same stage was a compelling cast of marauding gangsters, swashbuckling politicos, unsung civil rights heroes, and a stylish millionaire anxious to save his doomed city. Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis ingeniously explore the swirling forces that led many people to warn President Kennedy to avoid Dallas on his fateful trip to Texas. Breathtakingly paced, Dallas 1963 presents a clear, cinematic, and revelatory look at the shocking tragedy that transformed America. Countless authors have attempted to explain the assassination, but no one has ever bothered to explain Dallas - until now. With spellbinding storytelling, Minutaglio and Davis lead us through intimate glimpses of the Kennedy family and the machinations of the Kennedy White House, to the obsessed men in Dallas who concocted the climate of hatred that led many to blame the city for the president's death. Here at long last is an accurate understanding of what happened in the weeks and months leading to John F. Kennedy's assassination. Dallas 1963 is not only a fresh look at a momentous national tragedy but a sobering reminder of how radical, polarizing ideologies can poison a city - and a nation.
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Aug 31 2019

Image: Kennedy compound, Hyannis Port, Maine.Permissions: National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Public domain. Cecil Stoughton - http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/72001302.pdf
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Dallas 1963: Patriots, Traitors, and the Assassination of JFK ; Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Bill Minutaglio (Author, Narrator), Steven L. Davis (Author, Narrator), & 2 more
https://www.amazon.com/Dallas-1963-Patriots-Traitors-Assassination/dp/B00HAAWAVK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Dallas+1963&amp;qid=1567204334&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1In the months and weeks before the fateful November 22, 1963, Dallas was brewing with political passions, a city crammed with larger-than-life characters dead-set against the Kennedy presidency. These included rabid warriors like defrocked military general Edwin A. Walker; the world's richest oil baron, H. L. Hunt; the leader of the largest Baptist congregation in the world, W. A. Criswell; and the media mogul Ted Dealey, who raucously confronted JFK and whose family name adorns the plaza where the president was murdered. On the same stage was a compelling cast of marauding gangsters, swashbuckling politicos, unsung civil rights heroes, and a stylish millionaire anxious to save his doomed city. Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis ingeniously explore the swirling forces that led many people to warn President Kennedy to avoid Dallas on his fateful trip to Texas. Breathtakingly paced, Dallas 1963 presents a clear, cinematic, and revelatory look at the shocking tragedy that transformed America. Countless authors have attempted to explain the assassination, but no one has ever bothered to explain Dallas - until now. With spellbinding storytelling, Minutaglio and Davis lead us through intimate glimpses of the Kennedy family and the machinations of the Kennedy White House, to the obsessed men in Dallas who concocted the climate of hatred that led many to blame the city for the president's death. Here at long last is an accurate understanding of what happened in the weeks and months leading to John F. Kennedy's assassination. Dallas 1963 is not only a fresh look at a momentous national tragedy but a sobering reminder of how radical, polarizing ideologies can poison a city - and a nation.
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Aug 31 2019

Image: Partial map of the Internet based on the January 15, 2005, data found on opte.org. Each line is drawn between two nodes, representing two IP addresses. The length of the lines are indicative of the delay between those two nodes. This graph represents less than 30% of the Class C networks reachable by the data collection program in early 2005. Lines are color-coded according to their corresponding RFC 1918allocation as follows: net, ca, us / yellow com, org / purple mil, gov, edu / dark green jp, cn, tw, au, de / royal blue uk, it, pl, fr / electric green br, kr, nl / navy blue unknown / blackPermissions*: see below.No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet ; Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Molly Knight Raskin (Author), Christine Marshall (Narrator), &amp; 1 more
https://www.amazon.com/No-Better-Time-Remarkable-Transformed/dp/B00FF2XY9W/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=
No Better Time tells of a young, driven mathematical genius who wrote a set of algorithms that would create a faster, better Internet. It's the story of a beautiful friendship between a loud, irreverent student and his soft-spoken MIT professor, of a husband and father who spent years struggling to make ends meet only to become a billionaire almost overnight with the success of Akamai Technologies, the Internet content delivery network he cofounded with his mentor. Danny Lewin's brilliant but brief life is largely unknown because, until now, those closest to him have guarded their memories and quietly mourned their loss. For Lewin was almost certainly the first victim of 9/11, stabbed to death at age 31 while trying to overpower the terrorists who would eventually fly American Flight 11 into the World Trade Center. But ironically it was 9/11 that proved the ultimate test for Lewin's vision - while phone communication failed and web traffic surged as never before, the critical news and government sites that relied on Akamai - and the technology pioneered by Danny Lewin - remained up and running... .. .. .. .. .. .. * Permissions: I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5. Generic license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_map_1024_-_
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Aug 31 2019

Image: Financial district in Boston, Danny Lewin’s hometown. Permissions: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Attribution: rokker You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the workto remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. This image, which was originally posted to Panoramio, was automatically reviewed on 20 January 2017 by Panoramio upload bot, who confirmed that it was available on Panoramio under the above license on that date..
No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet ; Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Molly Knight Raskin (Author), Christine Marshall (Narrator), &amp; 1 more
https://www.amazon.com/No-Better-Time-Remarkable-Transformed/dp/B00FF2XY9W/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=
No Better Time tells of a young, driven mathematical genius who wrote a set of algorithms that would create a faster, better Internet. It's the story of a beautiful friendship between a loud, irreverent student and his soft-spoken MIT professor, of a husband and father who spent years struggling to make ends meet only to become a billionaire almost overnight with the success of Akamai Technologies, the Internet content delivery network he cofounded with his mentor. Danny Lewin's brilliant but brief life is largely unknown because, until now, those closest to him have guarded their memories and quietly mourned their loss. For Lewin was almost certainly the first victim of 9/11, stabbed to death at age 31 while trying to overpower the terrorists who would eventually fly American Flight 11 into the World Trade Center. But ironically it was 9/11 that proved the ultimate test for Lewin's vision - while phone communication failed and web traffic surged as never before, the critical news and government sites that relied on Akamai - and the technology pioneered by Danny Lewin - remained up and running.
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Aug 31 2019

Image: Boston, 1904. Public domain..
No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet ; Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Molly Knight Raskin (Author), Christine Marshall (Narrator), & 1 more
https://www.amazon.com/No-Better-Time-Remarkable-Transformed/dp/B00FF2XY9W/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
No Better Time tells of a young, driven mathematical genius who wrote a set of algorithms that would create a faster, better Internet. It's the story of a beautiful friendship between a loud, irreverent student and his soft-spoken MIT professor, of a husband and father who spent years struggling to make ends meet only to become a billionaire almost overnight with the success of Akamai Technologies, the Internet content delivery network he cofounded with his mentor. Danny Lewin's brilliant but brief life is largely unknown because, until now, those closest to him have guarded their memories and quietly mourned their loss. For Lewin was almost certainly the first victim of 9/11, stabbed to death at age 31 while trying to overpower the terrorists who would eventually fly American Flight 11 into the World Trade Center. But ironically it was 9/11 that proved the ultimate test for Lewin's vision - while phone communication failed and web traffic surged as never before, the critical news and government sites that relied on Akamai - and the technology pioneered by Danny Lewin - remained up and running.
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Aug 31 2019

Image: The name of Daniel M. Lewin is seen with those of other 9/11 victims from American Airlines Flight 11, inscribed on bronze panel N-75 of the North Pool of the National September 11 Memorial in Manhattan, as seen on December 6, 2011. This photo was created by Luigi Novi. You can see a gallery of some of my other photos here. If you have any questions, you can contact me by sending me an email or User talk:Nightscream (or go to: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lewin ) Permissions: Dominio público/public domain. Yo, el titular de los derechos de autor de esta obra, lo libero al dominio público. Esto aplica en todo el mundo. En algunos países esto puede no ser legalmente factible; si ello ocurriese: Concedo a cualquier persona el derecho de usar este trabajo para cualquier propósito, sin ningún tipo de condición al menos que éstas sean requeridas por la ley. [This is a remarkably generous and liberating explanation of the permission. Praise to Luigi Novi. –JBS ed.].
No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet ; Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Molly Knight Raskin (Author), Christine Marshall (Narrator), &amp; 1 more
https://www.amazon.com/No-Better-Time-Remarkable-Transformed/dp/B00FF2XY9W/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr= No Better Time tells of a young, driven mathematical genius who wrote a set of algorithms that would create a faster, better Internet. It's the story of a beautiful friendship between a loud, irreverent student and his soft-spoken MIT professor, of a husband and father who spent years struggling to make ends meet only to become a billionaire almost overnight with the success of Akamai Technologies, the Internet content delivery network he cofounded with his mentor. Danny Lewin's brilliant but brief life is largely unknown because, until now, those closest to him have guarded their memories and quietly mourned their loss. For Lewin was almost certainly the first victim of 9/11, stabbed to death at age 31 while trying to overpower the terrorists who would eventually fly American Flight 11 into the World Trade Center. But ironically it was 9/11 that proved the ultimate test for Lewin's vision - while phone communication failed and web traffic surged as never before, the critical news and government sites that relied on Akamai - and the technology pioneered by Danny Lewin - remained up and running.
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Aug 30 2019

Image: Official White House portrait of Theodore Roosevelt by John Singer Sargent. Public domain..
Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean up Sin-Loving New York Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Zacks (Author), Joe Ochman (Narrator), & 1 more
https://www.amazon.com/Island-Vice-Theodore-Roosevelts-Sin-Loving/dp/B007JQN3LG/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= When young Theodore Roosevelt was appointed police commissioner of New York City, he had the astounding gall to try to shut down the brothels, gambling joints, and after-hours saloons. This is the story of how TR took on Manhattan vice... and vice won. In the 1890s, New York City was America's financial, manufacturing, and entertainment capital, and also its preferred destination for sin, teeming with forty thousand prostitutes, glittery casinos, and all-night dives. Police cap­tains took hefty bribes to see nothing while reformers writhed in frustration. In Island of Vice, Richard Zacks paints a vivid portrait of the lewd underbelly of 1890s New York, and of Theodore Roosevelt, the puritanical, cocksure police commissioner resolved to clean it up. Writing with great wit and zest, Zacks explores how young Roosevelt goes head to head with Tammany Hall, takes midnight rambles with muckraker Jacob Riis, and tries to convince two million New Yorkers to enjoy wholesome family fun. When Roosevelt's crackdown succeeds too well, even his supporters turn on him, and TR discovers that New York loves its sin more than its salvation. With cameos by Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, and a horde of very angry cops, Island of Vice is an unforgettable snap­shot of turn-of-the-century New York in all its seedy glory and a brilliant miniature of one of America's most colorful presidents.
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Aug 30 2019

Image: Theodore Roosevelt's coat of arms, featuring a rose bush in reference to the name: "Roosevelt," which is Dutch for "rose field." Permissions/licensing: I, the copyright holder of this work - Glasshouse using elements by Sodacan -hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use..
Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean up Sin-Loving New York Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Zacks (Author), Joe Ochman (Narrator), &amp; 1 more
https://www.amazon.com/Island-Vice-Theodore-Roosevelts-Sin-Loving/dp/B007JQN3LG/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr= When young Theodore Roosevelt was appointed police commissioner of New York City, he had the astounding gall to try to shut down the brothels, gambling joints, and after-hours saloons. This is the story of how TR took on Manhattan vice... and vice won. In the 1890s, New York City was America's financial, manufacturing, and entertainment capital, and also its preferred destination for sin, teeming with forty thousand prostitutes, glittery casinos, and all-night dives. Police cap­tains took hefty bribes to see nothing while reformers writhed in frustration. In Island of Vice, Richard Zacks paints a vivid portrait of the lewd underbelly of 1890s New York, and of Theodore Roosevelt, the puritanical, cocksure police commissioner resolved to clean it up. Writing with great wit and zest, Zacks explores how young Roosevelt goes head to head with Tammany Hall, takes midnight rambles with muckraker Jacob Riis, and tries to convince two million New Yorkers to enjoy wholesome family fun. When Roosevelt's crackdown succeeds too well, even his supporters turn on him, and TR discovers that New York loves its sin more than its salvation. With cameos by Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, and a horde of very angry cops, Island of Vice is an unforgettable snap­shot of turn-of-the-century New York in all its seedy glory and a brilliant miniature of one of America's most colorful presidents.
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Aug 30 2019

Image: NYC Police Commissioner Roosevelt walks the beat with journalist Jacob Riis in 1894—Illustration from Riis's autobiography. Public domain..
Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean up Sin-Loving New York Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Zacks (Author), Joe Ochman (Narrator), & 1 more
https://www.amazon.com/Island-Vice-Theodore-Roosevelts-Sin-Loving/dp/B007JQN3LG/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= When young Theodore Roosevelt was appointed police commissioner of New York City, he had the astounding gall to try to shut down the brothels, gambling joints, and after-hours saloons. This is the story of how TR took on Manhattan vice... and vice won. In the 1890s, New York City was America's financial, manufacturing, and entertainment capital, and also its preferred destination for sin, teeming with forty thousand prostitutes, glittery casinos, and all-night dives. Police cap­tains took hefty bribes to see nothing while reformers writhed in frustration. In Island of Vice, Richard Zacks paints a vivid portrait of the lewd underbelly of 1890s New York, and of Theodore Roosevelt, the puritanical, cocksure police commissioner resolved to clean it up. Writing with great wit and zest, Zacks explores how young Roosevelt goes head to head with Tammany Hall, takes midnight rambles with muckraker Jacob Riis, and tries to convince two million New Yorkers to enjoy wholesome family fun. When Roosevelt's crackdown succeeds too well, even his supporters turn on him, and TR discovers that New York loves its sin more than its salvation. With cameos by Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, and a horde of very angry cops, Island of Vice is an unforgettable snap­shot of turn-of-the-century New York in all its seedy glory and a brilliant miniature of one of America's most colorful presidents.
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Aug 30 2019

Image: Cartoon by Marguerite Martyn of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch portrays Edith Roosevelt keeping people away from the president's room after he was shot in October 1912. Original publication: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 18, 1912. Public domain.
Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean up Sin-Loving New York Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Zacks (Author), Joe Ochman (Narrator), & 1 more
https://www.amazon.com/Island-Vice-Theodore-Roosevelts-Sin-Loving/dp/B007JQN3LG/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr= When young Theodore Roosevelt was appointed police commissioner of New York City, he had the astounding gall to try to shut down the brothels, gambling joints, and after-hours saloons. This is the story of how TR took on Manhattan vice... and vice won. In the 1890s, New York City was America's financial, manufacturing, and entertainment capital, and also its preferred destination for sin, teeming with forty thousand prostitutes, glittery casinos, and all-night dives. Police cap­tains took hefty bribes to see nothing while reformers writhed in frustration. In Island of Vice, Richard Zacks paints a vivid portrait of the lewd underbelly of 1890s New York, and of Theodore Roosevelt, the puritanical, cocksure police commissioner resolved to clean it up. Writing with great wit and zest, Zacks explores how young Roosevelt goes head to head with Tammany Hall, takes midnight rambles with muckraker Jacob Riis, and tries to convince two million New Yorkers to enjoy wholesome family fun. When Roosevelt's crackdown succeeds too well, even his supporters turn on him, and TR discovers that New York loves its sin more than its salvation. With cameos by Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, and a horde of very angry cops, Island of Vice is an unforgettable snap­shot of turn-of-the-century New York in all its seedy glory and a brilliant miniature of one of America's most colorful presidents.
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Aug 30 2019

Photo: English: Photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt with his family at CampobelloDate | 1920Source | National Archives and Records Administration, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library (NLFDR), 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, NY, 12538-1999.Author | Unknown or not providedPermission(Reusing this file) | | This work is in the public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow
The Man He Became: 1 of 4: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. James Tobin (Author), Charles Constant (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)
https://www.amazon.com/Man-He-Became-Defied-Presidency/dp/B00GK4NPLG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=James+Tobin+The+Man+He+Became&amp;qid=1567125523&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1
When polio paralyzed Franklin Roosevelt at the age of thirty-nine, people wept to think that the young man of golden promise must live out his days as a helpless invalid. He never again walked on his own. But in just over a decade, he regained his strength and seized the presidency. This was the most remarkable comeback in the history of American politics. And, as author James Tobin shows, it was the pivot of Roosevelt's life-the triumphant struggle that tempered and revealed his true character. With enormous ambition, canny resourcefulness, and sheer grit, FDR willed himself back into contention and turned personal disaster to his political advantage. Tobin's dramatic account of Roosevelt's ordeal and victory offers central insights into the forging of one of our greatest presidents....more

Aug 30 2019

Photo: Unknown or not providedRecord creator | Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945Title | Eleanor Roosevelt, Anna, Elliott, Franklin D. Roosevelt jr; John, and Chief at CampobelloDate | 1920This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow
The Man He Became: 2 of 4: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. James Tobin (Author), Charles Constant (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)
https://www.amazon.com/Man-He-Became-Defied-Presidency/dp/B00GK4NPLG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=James+Tobin+The+Man+He+Became&amp;qid=1567125523&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1
When polio paralyzed Franklin Roosevelt at the age of thirty-nine, people wept to think that the young man of golden promise must live out his days as a helpless invalid. He never again walked on his own. But in just over a decade, he regained his strength and seized the presidency. This was the most remarkable comeback in the history of American politics. And, as author James Tobin shows, it was the pivot of Roosevelt's life-the triumphant struggle that tempered and revealed his true character. With enormous ambition, canny resourcefulness, and sheer grit, FDR willed himself back into contention and turned personal disaster to his political advantage. Tobin's dramatic account of Roosevelt's ordeal and victory offers central insights into the forging of one of our greatest presidents....more

Aug 30 2019

Photo: Unknown or not providedRecord creator | Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945Title | Eleanor Roosevelt, Elliott, James, and Sara Delano at CampobelloDate | August 1913This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Codehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow
The Man He Became: 3 of 4: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. James Tobin (Author), Charles Constant (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)
https://www.amazon.com/Man-He-Became-Defied-Presidency/dp/B00GK4NPLG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=James+Tobin+The+Man+He+Became&amp;qid=1567125523&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1
When polio paralyzed Franklin Roosevelt at the age of thirty-nine, people wept to think that the young man of golden promise must live out his days as a helpless invalid. He never again walked on his own. But in just over a decade, he regained his strength and seized the presidency. This was the most remarkable comeback in the history of American politics. And, as author James Tobin shows, it was the pivot of Roosevelt's life-the triumphant struggle that tempered and revealed his true character. With enormous ambition, canny resourcefulness, and sheer grit, FDR willed himself back into contention and turned personal disaster to his political advantage. Tobin's dramatic account of Roosevelt's ordeal and victory offers central insights into the forging of one of our greatest presidents....more

Aug 30 2019

Photo: Unknown or not providedRecord creator | Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945Title | Franklin D. Roosevelt, rear left, front row: Catherine Delano, Laura Delano, and Louise P. Delano, rear: right, Lyman DelanoDate | 13 April 1902This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Codehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow
The Man He Became: 4 of 4: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. James Tobin (Author), Charles Constant (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)
https://www.amazon.com/Man-He-Became-Defied-Presidency/dp/B00GK4NPLG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=James+Tobin+The+Man+He+Became&amp;qid=1567125523&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1
When polio paralyzed Franklin Roosevelt at the age of thirty-nine, people wept to think that the young man of golden promise must live out his days as a helpless invalid. He never again walked on his own. But in just over a decade, he regained his strength and seized the presidency. This was the most remarkable comeback in the history of American politics. And, as author James Tobin shows, it was the pivot of Roosevelt's life-the triumphant struggle that tempered and revealed his true character. With enormous ambition, canny resourcefulness, and sheer grit, FDR willed himself back into contention and turned personal disaster to his political advantage. Tobin's dramatic account of Roosevelt's ordeal and victory offers central insights into the forging of one of our greatest presidents....more

Aug 30 2019

Photo: A reconstructed view of the first Yale College building in New Haven, Connecticut, built 1718.1916Source | Oviatt, Edwin (1916) The Beginnings of Yale (1701-1726), New Haven: Yale University Press, p. 354 Author | Theodore Diedricksen, Jr.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowObama checked on campus: 1 of 2: & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttp://www.hoover.org/research/farewell-title-ixs-kangaroo-courts
...the Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Education (DOE) withdrew the Obama administration’s Dear Colleague Letter of 2011. The letter had outlined a set of procedures that all educational institutions receiving federal funds—under Title IX of the 1972 Civil Rights Act—must use to “investigate, adjudicate, and resolve allegations of student-on-student sexual misconduct.” The Obama rules had required that sexual misconduct cases be tried under a “preponderance of the evidence” standard instead of the higher standard of “clear and convincing evidence,” which are traditionally used in such cases. The DOE’s recent reversal of policy under Betsy DeVos rests on the correct conviction that the regulations set forth in the letter violate the procedural due process of the accused students…
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Aug 30 2019

Photo: Image from page 62 of "Lake Forest university review" (1880)
Identifier: lakeforestuniver01lake
Title: Lake Forest university review
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Lake Forest University
Subjects: Lake Forest University
Publisher: Lake Forest, Ill. : The University
Contributing Library: Lake Forest College, Donnelley and Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois
http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowObama checked on campus: 2 of 2: &amp; What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttp://www.hoover.org/research/farewell-title-ixs-kangaroo-courts
...the Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Education (DOE) withdrew the Obama administration’s Dear Colleague Letter of 2011. The letter had outlined a set of procedures that all educational institutions receiving federal funds—under Title IX of the 1972 Civil Rights Act—must use to “investigate, adjudicate, and resolve allegations of student-on-student sexual misconduct.” The Obama rules had required that sexual misconduct cases be tried under a “preponderance of the evidence” standard instead of the higher standard of “clear and convincing evidence,” which are traditionally used in such cases. The DOE’s recent reversal of policy under Betsy DeVos rests on the correct conviction that the regulations set forth in the letter violate the procedural due process of the accused students…
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Aug 29 2019

Image: Bernard Madoff's mugshot. Permission details: This image is a work of a United States Department of Justice employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain (17 U.S.C. § 101 and 105Image: .
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
Diana B. Henriques (Author), Pam Ward (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Lies-Bernie-Madoff-Death/dp/B0058B98KO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1567039217&amp;sr=1-1 Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history? These questions have fascinated people ever since the news broke about the respected New York financier who swindled his friends, relatives, and other investors out of $65 billion through a fraud that lasted for decades. Many have speculated about what might have happened or what must have happened, but no reporter has been able to get the full story - until now. In The Wizard of Lies, Diana B. Henriques of the New York Times - who has led the paper's coverage of the Madoff scandal since the day the story broke - has written the definitive book on the man and his scheme, drawing on unprecedented access and more than 100 interviews with people at all levels and on all sides of the crime, including Madoff's first interviews for publication since his arrest. Henriques also provides vivid details from the various lawsuits, government investigations, and court filings that will explode the myths that have come to surround the story. A true-life financial thriller, The Wizard of Lies contrasts Madoff's remarkable rise on Wall Street, where he became one of the country's most trusted and respected traders, with dramatic scenes from his accelerating slide toward self-destruction. It is also the most complete account of the heartbreaking personal disasters and landmark legal battles triggered by Madoff's downfall - the suicides, business failures, fractured families, shuttered charities - and the clear lessons this timeless scandal offers to Washington, Wall Street, and Main Street.
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Aug 29 2019

Image: A very early Wall Street bull: paleolithic polychrome Magdalenian bull, Cave of Altamire; from the National Museum and Research Center of Altamira, Spain. Author: Museo de Altamira y D. Rodríguez. This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. Wikimedia has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an OTRS member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2013031810013815..
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
Diana B. Henriques (Author), Pam Ward (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Lies-Bernie-Madoff-Death/dp/B0058B98KO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1567039217&amp;sr=1-1 Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history? These questions have fascinated people ever since the news broke about the respected New York financier who swindled his friends, relatives, and other investors out of $65 billion through a fraud that lasted for decades. Many have speculated about what might have happened or what must have happened, but no reporter has been able to get the full story - until now. In The Wizard of Lies, Diana B. Henriques of the New York Times - who has led the paper's coverage of the Madoff scandal since the day the story broke - has written the definitive book on the man and his scheme, drawing on unprecedented access and more than 100 interviews with people at all levels and on all sides of the crime, including Madoff's first interviews for publication since his arrest. Henriques also provides vivid details from the various lawsuits, government investigations, and court filings that will explode the myths that have come to surround the story. A true-life financial thriller, The Wizard of Lies contrasts Madoff's remarkable rise on Wall Street, where he became one of the country's most trusted and respected traders, with dramatic scenes from his accelerating slide toward self-destruction. It is also the most complete account of the heartbreaking personal disasters and landmark legal battles triggered by Madoff's downfall - the suicides, business failures, fractured families, shuttered charities - and the clear lessons this timeless scandal offers to Washington, Wall Street, and Main Street.
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Aug 29 2019

Image: FCI Butner Medium (Federal Correctional Institute Butner Medium), where Bernie Madoff is incarcerated. Permissions: Federal Bureau of Prisons, so public domain..
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
Diana B. Henriques (Author), Pam Ward (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Lies-Bernie-Madoff-Death/dp/B0058B98KO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1567039217&sr=1-1 Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history? These questions have fascinated people ever since the news broke about the respected New York financier who swindled his friends, relatives, and other investors out of $65 billion through a fraud that lasted for decades. Many have speculated about what might have happened or what must have happened, but no reporter has been able to get the full story - until now. In The Wizard of Lies, Diana B. Henriques of the New York Times - who has led the paper's coverage of the Madoff scandal since the day the story broke - has written the definitive book on the man and his scheme, drawing on unprecedented access and more than 100 interviews with people at all levels and on all sides of the crime, including Madoff's first interviews for publication since his arrest. Henriques also provides vivid details from the various lawsuits, government investigations, and court filings that will explode the myths that have come to surround the story. A true-life financial thriller, The Wizard of Lies contrasts Madoff's remarkable rise on Wall Street, where he became one of the country's most trusted and respected traders, with dramatic scenes from his accelerating slide toward self-destruction. It is also the most complete account of the heartbreaking personal disasters and landmark legal battles triggered by Madoff's downfall - the suicides, business failures, fractured families, shuttered charities - and ...more

Aug 29 2019

Image: The unsustainable exponential progression of a classic pyramid scheme (here with a branching factor of 6). This vector version by Mysid – Vectorized; from Image:PyramidSchemeMS.jpg, and removed one phrase to make less US-centric; from Securities and Exchange [U.S. Federal Govt.] commission report on pyramid schemes. Public domain..
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
Diana B. Henriques (Author), Pam Ward (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Lies-Bernie-Madoff-Death/dp/B0058B98KO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1567039217&amp;sr=1-1 Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history? These questions have fascinated people ever since the news broke about the respected New York financier who swindled his friends, relatives, and other investors out of $65 billion through a fraud that lasted for decades. Many have speculated about what might have happened or what must have happened, but no reporter has been able to get the full story - until now. In The Wizard of Lies, Diana B. Henriques of the New York Times - who has led the paper's coverage of the Madoff scandal since the day the story broke - has written the definitive book on the man and his scheme, drawing on unprecedented access and more than 100 interviews with people at all levels and on all sides of the crime, including Madoff's first interviews for publication since his arrest. Henriques also provides vivid details from the various lawsuits, government investigations, and court filings that will explode the myths that have come to surround the story. A true-life financial thriller, The Wizard of Lies contrasts Madoff's remarkable rise on Wall Street, where he became one of the country's most trusted and respected traders, with dramatic scenes from his accelerating slide toward self-destruction. It is also the most complete account of the heartbreaking personal disasters and landmark legal battles triggered by Madoff's downfall - the suicides, business failures, fractured families, shuttered charities - and the clear lessons this timeless scandal offers to Washington, Wall Street, and Main Street.
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Aug 29 2019

Image: Replica of the golden mask of Tutankhamun in the Egyptian Museum. Author’s text: Since January 1, 2016 it is possible again to take photographs in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The funerary mask of Tutankhamun is certainly the most demanded exhibit.Author: Roland Unger. Permissions: see below.*.
The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy, Hardcover – June 4, 2013, by Jo Marchant
https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-King-Bizarre-Afterlife-Mummy/dp/0306821338 More than 3,000 years ago, King Tutankhamon’s desiccated body was lovingly wrapped and sent into the future as an immortal god. After resting undisturbed for more than three millennia, King Tut’s mummy was suddenly awakened in 1922. Archaeologist Howard Carter had discovered the boy-king’s tomb, and the soon-to-be famous mummy’s story—even more dramatic than King Tut’s life—began. The mummy’s “afterlife” is a modern story, not an ancient one. Award-winning science writer Jo Marchant traces the mummy’s story from its first brutal autopsy in 1925 to the most recent arguments over its DNA. From the glamorous treasure hunts of the 1920s to today’s high-tech scans in volatile modern Egypt, Marchant introduces us to the brilliant and sometimes flawed people who have devoted their lives to revealing the mummy’s secrets, unravels the truth behind the hyped-up TV documentaries, and explains what science can and can’t tell us about King Tutankhamon... .. .. *Permissions: I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
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Aug 29 2019

Image: Tutankhamon receives flowers from Ankhesenamun. This image is on the lid of a box found in Tut's tomb. Public Domain.
The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy, Hardcover – June 4, 2013, by Jo Marchant
https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-King-Bizarre-Afterlife-Mummy/dp/0306821338 More than 3,000 years ago, King Tutankhamon’s desiccated body was lovingly wrapped and sent into the future as an immortal god. After resting undisturbed for more than three millennia, King Tut’s mummy was suddenly awakened in 1922. The archaeologist Howard Carter had discovered the boy-king’s tomb, and the soon-to-be famous mummy’s story—even more dramatic than King Tut’s life—began. The mummy’s “afterlife” is a modern story, not an ancient one. The award-winning science writer Jo Marchant traces the mummy’s story from its first brutal autopsy in 1925 to the most recent arguments over its DNA. From the glamorous treasure hunts of the 1920s to today’s high-tech scans in volatile modern Egypt, Marchant introduces us to the brilliant and sometimes flawed people who have devoted their lives to revealing the mummy’s secrets, unravels the truth behind the hyped-up TV documentaries, and explains what science can and can’t tell us about King Tutankhamon....more

Aug 29 2019

Image: In the Valley of the Kings, the necropolis, a sample entryway: Corridor descending to the tomb of Twosret and Setnakhte. Public domain. Addendum: Vue de la descente de l'hypogée de la reine Taousert usurpé par Sethnakht - XIXe et XXe dynasties égyptiennes - Vallée des Rois..
The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy, Hardcover – June 4, 2013, by Jo Marchant
https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-King-Bizarre-Afterlife-Mummy/dp/0306821338 More than 3,000 years ago, King Tutankhamun’s desiccated body was lovingly wrapped and sent into the future as an immortal god. After resting undisturbed for more than three millennia, King Tut’s mummy was suddenly awakened in 1922. Archaeologist Howard Carter had discovered the boy-king’s tomb, and the soon-to-be famous mummy’s story—even more dramatic than King Tut’s life—began. The mummy’s “afterlife” is a modern story, not an ancient one. Award-winning science writer Jo Marchant traces the mummy’s story from its first brutal autopsy in 1925 to the most recent arguments over its DNA. From the glamorous treasure hunts of the 1920s to today’s high-tech scans in volatile modern Egypt, Marchant introduces us to the brilliant and sometimes flawed people who have devoted their lives to revealing the mummy’s secrets, unravels the truth behind the hyped-up TV documentaries, and explains what science can and can’t tell us about King Tutankhamun.
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Aug 29 2019

Photo: The Brunswick Hotel, Copley Square, Boston, Mass.
File name: 06_10_000091
Title: The Brunswick Hotel, Copley Square, Boston, Mass.
Created/Published: Tichnor Bros. Inc., Boston, Mass.
Date issued: 1930 - 1945 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Genre: Postcards
Subjects: Hotels
Notes: Title from item.
Collection: The Tichnor Brothers Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions
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JFK, Conservative: 1 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Ira Stoll (Author), J. Paul Boehmer (Narrator), &amp; 1 more
https://www.amazon.com/JFK-Conservative/dp/B00FM6WJXI/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=IRA+Stoll+JFK&amp;qid=1567039663&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1
John F. Kennedy is lionized by liberals. He inspired Bill Clinton to go into politics and Lyndon B. Johnson to push for landmark civil rights laws. His champions insist he would have done "great liberal things" had he not been killed by Lee Harvey Oswald.
But what if we have completely misunderstood him? What if we judge him by the lengthy record of his actual political career? His two great causes were anticommunism and economic growth. His tax cuts, his domestic-spending restraint, his military buildup, his emphasis on free trade and a strong dollar, and his foreign policy all make him, by the standards of both his time and our own, a conservative.
Ira Stoll convincingly argues that JFK "had more in common with Ronald Reagan than with LBJ." Not every Republican is a true heir to Kennedy, but hardly any Democrats deserve that mantle.
JFK, Conservative is sure to appeal to conservative readers - and will force liberals to reconsider one of their icons.
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Aug 29 2019

Photo: Merrimack Street, south, Haverhill, Mass.
File name: 06_10_000706
Title: Merrimack Street, south, Haverhill, Mass.
Created/Published: Published by Schlafman Borothers, Haverhill, Mass.Tichnor Bros. Inc., Boston, Mass.
Date issued: 1930 - 1945 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Genre: Postcards
Subjects: Cities & towns
Notes: Title from item.
Collection: The Tichnor Brothers Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions
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JFK, Conservative: 2 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Ira Stoll (Author), J. Paul Boehmer (Narrator), &amp; 1 more
https://www.amazon.com/JFK-Conservative/dp/B00FM6WJXI/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=IRA+Stoll+JFK&amp;qid=1567039663&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1
John F. Kennedy is lionized by liberals. He inspired Bill Clinton to go into politics and Lyndon B. Johnson to push for landmark civil rights laws. His champions insist he would have done "great liberal things" had he not been killed by Lee Harvey Oswald.
But what if we have completely misunderstood him? What if we judge him by the lengthy record of his actual political career? His two great causes were anticommunism and economic growth. His tax cuts, his domestic-spending restraint, his military buildup, his emphasis on free trade and a strong dollar, and his foreign policy all make him, by the standards of both his time and our own, a conservative.
Ira Stoll convincingly argues that JFK "had more in common with Ronald Reagan than with LBJ." Not every Republican is a true heir to Kennedy, but hardly any Democrats deserve that mantle.
JFK, Conservative is sure to appeal to conservative readers - and will force liberals to reconsider one of their icons.
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Aug 29 2019

Photo: City Hall and New England Telephone and Telegraph Company Building, Lynn, Mass.
File name: 06_10_000814
Title: City Hall and New England Telephone and Telegraph Company Building, Lynn, Mass.
Created/Published: Tichnor Bros. Inc., Boston, Mass.
Date issued: 1930 - 1945 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Genre: Postcards
Subjects: New England Telephone and Telegraph Company; City & town halls; Commercial facilities
Notes: Title from item.
Collection: The Tichnor Brothers Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions
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JFK, Conservative: 3 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Ira Stoll (Author), J. Paul Boehmer (Narrator), &amp; 1 more
https://www.amazon.com/JFK-Conservative/dp/B00FM6WJXI/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=IRA+Stoll+JFK&amp;qid=1567039663&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1
John F. Kennedy is lionized by liberals. He inspired Bill Clinton to go into politics and Lyndon B. Johnson to push for landmark civil rights laws. His champions insist he would have done "great liberal things" had he not been killed by Lee Harvey Oswald.
But what if we have completely misunderstood him? What if we judge him by the lengthy record of his actual political career? His two great causes were anticommunism and economic growth. His tax cuts, his domestic-spending restraint, his military buildup, his emphasis on free trade and a strong dollar, and his foreign policy all make him, by the standards of both his time and our own, a conservative.
Ira Stoll convincingly argues that JFK "had more in common with Ronald Reagan than with LBJ." Not every Republican is a true heir to Kennedy, but hardly any Democrats deserve that mantle.
JFK, Conservative is sure to appeal to conservative readers - and will force liberals to reconsider one of their icons.
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Aug 29 2019

Photo: Stromberg's at Dane Street Beach, Rt. 127, Beverly, Mass.
File name: 06_10_000879
Title: Stromberg's at Dane Street Beach, Rt. 127, Beverly, Mass.
Created/Published: Tichnor Bros. Inc., Boston, Mass.
Date issued: 1930 - 1945 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Genre: Postcards
Subjects: Stores & shops
Notes: Title from item.
Collection: The Tichnor Brothers Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions
http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow
JFK, Conservative: 4 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Ira Stoll (Author), J. Paul Boehmer (Narrator), &amp; 1 more
https://www.amazon.com/JFK-Conservative/dp/B00FM6WJXI/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=IRA+Stoll+JFK&amp;qid=1567039663&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1
John F. Kennedy is lionized by liberals. He inspired Bill Clinton to go into politics and Lyndon B. Johnson to push for landmark civil rights laws. His champions insist he would have done "great liberal things" had he not been killed by Lee Harvey Oswald.
But what if we have completely misunderstood him? What if we judge him by the lengthy record of his actual political career? His two great causes were anticommunism and economic growth. His tax cuts, his domestic-spending restraint, his military buildup, his emphasis on free trade and a strong dollar, and his foreign policy all make him, by the standards of both his time and our own, a conservative.
Ira Stoll convincingly argues that JFK "had more in common with Ronald Reagan than with LBJ." Not every Republican is a true heir to Kennedy, but hardly any Democrats deserve that mantle.
JFK, Conservative is sure to appeal to conservative readers - and will force liberals to reconsider one of their icons.
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Aug 28 2019

Photo: The Yalta Conference, Crimea, February 1945 The Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Winston Churchill, MP the President of the United States, Mr Franklin Roosevelt Marshal Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union photographed in the grounds of the Livadia Palace, Yalta during the eight day Yalta Conference. Standing behind the three leaders are, left to right: the British Foreign Secretary, the Rt Hon Anthony Eden, MP the American Secretary of State, Mr Edward Stettinius the British Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Rt Hon Sir Alexander Cadogan the Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Mr Vyacheslav Molotov the American Ambassador in Moscow, Mr Averell Harriman. Public domain*.
Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman - from World War to Cold War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael Dobbs (Author), Bob Walter (Narrator), &amp; 1 more
https://www.amazon.com/Six-Months-1945-Stalin-Churchill/dp/B009RFH28M/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=From the author of the best-selling One Minute to Midnight, a riveting account of the pivotal six-month period spanning the end of World War II, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the beginning of the Cold War. When Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met in Yalta in February 1945, Hitler's armies were on the run and victory was imminent. The Big Three wanted to draft a blueprint for a lasting peace - but instead set the stage for a 44-year division of Europe into Soviet and western spheres of influence. After fighting side by side for nearly four years, their political alliance was rapidly fracturing. By the time the leaders met again in Potsdam in July 1945, Russians and Americans were squabbling over the future of Germany and Churchill was warning about an "iron curtain" being drawn down over the Continent. These six months witnessed some of the most dramatic moments of the 20th century: the cataclysmic battle for Berlin, the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps, Churchill's electoral defeat, and the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan. While their armies linked up in the heart of Europe, the political leaders maneuvered for leverage: Stalin using his nation's wartime sacrifices to claim spoils, Churchill doing his best to halt Britain's waning influence, FDR trying to charm Stalin, Truman determined to stand up to an increasingly assertive Soviet superpower. Six Months in 1945 brilliantly captures this momentous historical turning point, chronicling the geopolitical twists behind the descent of the iron curtain, while illuminating the aims and personalities of larger-than-life political giants. It is a vividly rendered story of individual and national interests in fierce competition at a seminal moment in history... .. .. * This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation....more

Aug 28 2019

Map: The eventual partition of Germany into Allied Occupation Zones: Green - British zone Blue - French zone (two exclaves) and beginning in 1947, the Saar protectorate
Tan - American zone Red - Soviet zone, later the GDR
Yellow/beige - Polish and Soviet annexed territory
Occupation zone borders in Germany, 1947. The territories east of the Oder-Neisse line, under Polish and Soviet administration/annexation, are shown as cream as is the likewise detached Saar protectorate. Berlin is the multinational area within the Soviet zone.
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Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman - from World War to Cold War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael Dobbs (Author), Bob Walter (Narrator), &amp; 1 more
https://www.amazon.com/Six-Months-1945-Stalin-Churchill/dp/B009RFH28M/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=From the author of the best-selling One Minute to Midnight, a riveting account of the pivotal six-month period spanning the end of World War II, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the beginning of the Cold War. When Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met in Yalta in February 1945, Hitler's armies were on the run and victory was imminent. The Big Three wanted to draft a blueprint for a lasting peace - but instead set the stage for a 44-year division of Europe into Soviet and western spheres of influence. After fighting side by side for nearly four years, their political alliance was rapidly fracturing. By the time the leaders met again in Potsdam in July 1945, Russians and Americans were squabbling over the future of Germany and Churchill was warning about an "iron curtain" being drawn down over the Continent. These six months witnessed some of the most dramatic moments of the 20th century: the cataclysmic battle for Berlin, the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps, Churchill's electoral defeat, and the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan. While their armies linked up in the heart of Europe, the political leaders maneuvered for leverage: Stalin using his nation's wartime sacrifices to claim spoils, Churchill doing his best to halt Britain's waning influence, FDR trying to charm Stalin, Truman determined to stand up to an increasingly assertive Soviet superpower. Six Months in 1945 brilliantly captures this momentous historical turning point, chronicling the geopolitical twists behind the descent of the iron curtain, while illuminating the aims and personalities of larger-than-life political giants. It is a vividly rendered story of individual and national interests in fierce competition at a seminal moment in history.
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Aug 28 2019

Photo: Banner of Stalin in Budapest in 1949. Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R78376 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 ; from 23 August 1949 This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany;from Deutsches Bundesarchiv. I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use..
Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman - from World War to Cold War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael Dobbs (Author), Bob Walter (Narrator), &amp; 1 more
https://www.amazon.com/Six-Months-1945-Stalin-Churchill/dp/B009RFH28M/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=From the author of the best-selling One Minute to Midnight, a riveting account of the pivotal six-month period spanning the end of World War II, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the beginning of the Cold War. When Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met in Yalta in February 1945, Hitler's armies were on the run and victory was imminent. The Big Three wanted to draft a blueprint for a lasting peace - but instead set the stage for a 44-year division of Europe into Soviet and western spheres of influence. After fighting side by side for nearly four years, their political alliance was rapidly fracturing. By the time the leaders met again in Potsdam in July 1945, Russians and Americans were squabbling over the future of Germany and Churchill was warning about an "iron curtain" being drawn down over the Continent. These six months witnessed some of the most dramatic moments of the 20th century: the cataclysmic battle for Berlin, the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps, Churchill's electoral defeat, and the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan. While their armies linked up in the heart of Europe, the political leaders maneuvered for leverage: Stalin using his nation's wartime sacrifices to claim spoils, Churchill doing his best to halt Britain's waning influence, FDR trying to charm Stalin, Truman determined to stand up to an increasingly assertive Soviet superpower. Six Months in 1945 brilliantly captures this momentous historical turning point, chronicling the geopolitical twists behind the descent of the iron curtain, while illuminating the aims and personalities of larger-than-life political giants. It is a vividly rendered story of individual and national interests in fierce competition at a seminal moment in history.
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Aug 28 2019

Photo: The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, rose some 11 mi (18 km) above the bomb's hypocenter; from the northwest. By Charles Levy - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration; public domain..
Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman - from World War to Cold War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael Dobbs (Author), Bob Walter (Narrator), & 1 more
https://www.amazon.com/Six-Months-1945-Stalin-Churchill/dp/B009RFH28M/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=From the author of the best-selling One Minute to Midnight, a riveting account of the pivotal six-month period spanning the end of World War II, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the beginning of the Cold War. When Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met in Yalta in February 1945, Hitler's armies were on the run and victory was imminent. The Big Three wanted to draft a blueprint for a lasting peace - but instead set the stage for a 44-year division of Europe into Soviet and western spheres of influence. After fighting side by side for nearly four years, their political alliance was rapidly fracturing. By the time the leaders met again in Potsdam in July 1945, Russians and Americans were squabbling over the future of Germany and Churchill was warning about an "iron curtain" being drawn down over the Continent. These six months witnessed some of the most dramatic moments of the 20th century: the cataclysmic battle for Berlin, the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps, Churchill's electoral defeat, and the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan. While their armies linked up in the heart of Europe, the political leaders maneuvered for leverage: Stalin using his nation's wartime sacrifices to claim spoils, Churchill doing his best to halt Britain's waning influence, FDR trying to charm Stalin, Truman determined to stand up to an increasingly assertive Soviet superpower. Six Months in 1945 brilliantly captures this momentous historical turning point, chronicling the geopolitical twists behind the descent of the iron curtain, while illuminating the aims and personalities of larger-than-life political giants. It is a vividly rendered story of individual and national interests in fierce competition at a seminal moment in history.
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Aug 28 2019

Photo: English: The crew of the German "Luftwaffe - Luftgaukommando Westfrankreich - Luftwacht-Regiment 8" (=the crew of the later "Tower of Paris") before the stairs of the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre of Paris in 1942Date | 1942Source | scan of originalAuthor | official photographer of the "Deutsche Wehrmacht - Ortskommandantur beim Stadtkommandanten von Paris"Permission(Reusing this file) | | This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright termis the author's life plus 70 years or less.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow
Mission to Paris: 1 of 2: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Alan Furst (Author), Daniel Gerroll (Narrator), Simon &amp; Schuster Audio (Publisher)
https://www.amazon.com/Mission-to-Paris/dp/B008ARPZ00/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1566956920&amp;sr=8-18
At the center of the intrigue is Hollywood star Frederic Stahl. September 1938. On the eve of the Munich Appeasement, Stahl arrives in Paris, on loan from Warner Brothers to star in a French film. He quickly becomes entangled in the shifting political currents of pre-war Paris - French fascists, German Nazis, and his Hollywood publicists all have their fates tied to him. But members of the clandestine spy world of Paris have a deeper interest in Stahl, sensing a potential asset in a handsome, internationally renowned actor.
Ranging from the high society of glittering Paris to film set locations in far-away Damascus and Budapest, Alan Furst's new novel confirms his status as a writer whose stories unfold "like a vivid dream" (The Wall Street Journal)....more

Aug 28 2019

Photo: UnknownArchive description | Description provided by the archive when the original description is incomplete or wrong. You can help by reporting errors and typos at Commons:Bundesarchiv/Error reports.Aufnahme etwa 1940 - 1941Title | Paris, deutsche Wachtparade Original caption | For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Bis zuletzt zog die Wachtparade mit klingendem Spiel über den Champs-Elysees in Paris. Im Hintergrund der Triumphbogen.Depicted place | ParisDate | 1940http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowMission to Paris: 2 of 2: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Alan Furst (Author), Daniel Gerroll (Narrator), Simon &amp; Schuster Audio (Publisher)
https://www.amazon.com/Mission-to-Paris/dp/B008ARPZ00/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1566956920&amp;sr=8-18
At the center of the intrigue is Hollywood star Frederic Stahl. September 1938. On the eve of the Munich Appeasement, Stahl arrives in Paris, on loan from Warner Brothers to star in a French film. He quickly becomes entangled in the shifting political currents of pre-war Paris - French fascists, German Nazis, and his Hollywood publicists all have their fates tied to him. But members of the clandestine spy world of Paris have a deeper interest in Stahl, sensing a potential asset in a handsome, internationally renowned actor.
Ranging from the high society of glittering Paris to film set locations in far-away Damascus and Budapest, Alan Furst's new novel confirms his status as a writer whose stories unfold "like a vivid dream" (The Wall Street Journal)....more

Aug 28 2019

Image: Pres. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt seated on lawn, surrounded by their family; 1903. From left to right: Quentin, Theodore Sr., Theodore Jr., Archie, Alice, Kermit, Edith, and Ethel. Library of Congress; public domain..
America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East, by Hugh Wilford. East, by Hugh Wilford. https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Great-Game-Arabists-Shaping/dp/046509628X/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495140203&sr=1-1&keywords=wilford+great+game From the 9/11 attacks to waterboarding to drone strikes, relations between the United States and the Middle East seem caught in a downward spiral. And all too often, the Central Intelligence Agency has made the situation worse. But this crisis was not a historical inevitability—far from it. Indeed, the earliest generation of CIA operatives was actually the region's staunchest western ally. In America's Great Game, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford reveals the surprising history of the CIA's pro-Arab operations in the 1940s and 50s by tracing the work of the agency's three most influential—and colorful—officers in the Middle East. Kermit “Kim” Roosevelt was the grandson of Theodore Roosevelt and the first head of CIA covert action in the region; his cousin, Archie Roosevelt, was a Middle East scholar and chief of the Beirut station. The two Roosevelts joined combined forces with Miles Copeland, a maverick covert operations specialist who had joined the American intelligence establishment during World War II. With their deep knowledge of Middle Eastern affairs, the three men were heirs to an American missionary tradition that engaged Arabs and Muslims with respect and empathy. Yet they were also fascinated by imperial intrigue, and were eager to play a modern rematch of the “Great Game,” the nineteenth-century struggle between Britain and Russia for control over central Asia. Despite their good intentions, these “Arabists” propped up authoritarian regimes, attempted secretly to sway public opinion in America against support for the new state of Israel, and staged coups that irrevocably destabilized the nations with which they empathized. Their efforts, and ultimate failure, would shape the course of U.S.–Middle Eastern relations for decades to come. Based on a vast array of declassified government records, private papers, and personal interviews, America's Great Game tells the riveting story of the merry band of CIA officers whose spy games forever changed U.S. foreign policy.
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Aug 28 2019

Image: Locator map for the Umayyad Caliphate at its greatest extent, c. AD 750. (Partially based on Atlas of World History [2007] - World 500-750, map.) At its greatest extent, the Umayyad Caliphate (661–750) covered 11,100,000 km2 (4,300,000 sq mi) and 62 million people (29 percent of the world's population), making it one of the largest empires in history in both area and proportion of the world's population. It was also larger than any previous empire in history.Author: Gabagool.I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use..
America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East, by Hugh Wilford. East, by Hugh Wilford. https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Great-Game-Arabists-Shaping/dp/046509628X/ref=sr11?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1495140203&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=wilford+great+game From the 9/11 attacks to waterboarding to drone strikes, relations between the United States and the Middle East seem caught in a downward spiral. And all too often, the Central Intelligence Agency has made the situation worse. But this crisis was not a historical inevitability—far from it. Indeed, the earliest generation of CIA operatives was actually the region's staunchest western ally. In America's Great Game, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford reveals the surprising history of the CIA's pro-Arab operations in the 1940s and 50s by tracing the work of the agency's three most influential—and colorful—officers in the Middle East. Kermit “Kim” Roosevelt was the grandson of Theodore Roosevelt and the first head of CIA covert action in the region; his cousin, Archie Roosevelt, was a Middle East scholar and chief of the Beirut station. The two Roosevelts joined combined forces with Miles Copeland, a maverick covert operations specialist who had joined the American intelligence establishment during World War II. With their deep knowledge of Middle Eastern affairs, the three men were heirs to an American missionary tradition that engaged Arabs and Muslims with respect and empathy. Yet they were also fascinated by imperial intrigue, and were eager to play a modern rematch of the “Great Game,” the nineteenth-century struggle between Britain and Russia for control over central Asia. Despite their good intentions, these “Arabists” propped up authoritarian regimes, attempted secretly to sway public opinion in America against support for the new state of Israel, and staged coups that irrevocably destabilized the nations with which they empathized. Their efforts, and ultimate failure, would shape the course of U.S.–Middle Eastern relations for decades to come. Based on a vast array of declassified government records, private papers, and personal interviews, America's Great Game tells the riveting story of the merry band of CIA officers whose spy games forever changed U.S. foreign policy.
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Aug 28 2019

Image: The Battle of Badr, 13 March 624 AD. Siyer-I Nebi or Life of the Prophet. Public domain. The history of Saudi Arabia in its current form as a state began with its foundation in 1744, although the human history of the region extends as far as 20,000 years ago. The region has had a global impact twice in world history: In the 7th century it became the cradle of Islam and the capital of the Islamic Rashidun Caliphate. From the mid-20th century, the discovery of vast oil deposits propelled it into a key economic and geo-political role..
America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East, by Hugh Wilford. East, by Hugh Wilford. https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Great-Game-Arabists-Shaping/dp/046509628X/ref=sr11?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1495140203&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=wilford+great+game From the 9/11 attacks to waterboarding to drone strikes, relations between the United States and the Middle East seem caught in a downward spiral. And all too often, the Central Intelligence Agency has made the situation worse. But this crisis was not a historical inevitability—far from it. Indeed, the earliest generation of CIA operatives was actually the region's staunchest western ally. In America's Great Game, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford reveals the surprising history of the CIA's pro-Arab operations in the 1940s and 50s by tracing the work of the agency's three most influential—and colorful—officers in the Middle East. Kermit “Kim” Roosevelt was the grandson of Theodore Roosevelt and the first head of CIA covert action in the region; his cousin, Archie Roosevelt, was a Middle East scholar and chief of the Beirut station. The two Roosevelts joined combined forces with Miles Copeland, a maverick covert operations specialist who had joined the American intelligence establishment during World War II. With their deep knowledge of Middle Eastern affairs, the three men were heirs to an American missionary tradition that engaged Arabs and Muslims with respect and empathy. Yet they were also fascinated by imperial intrigue, and were eager to play a modern rematch of the “Great Game,” the nineteenth-century struggle between Britain and Russia for control over central Asia. Despite their good intentions, these “Arabists” propped up authoritarian regimes, attempted secretly to sway public opinion in America against support for the new state of Israel, and staged coups that irrevocably destabilized the nations with which they empathized. Their efforts, and ultimate failure, would shape the course of U.S.–Middle Eastern relations for decades to come. Based on a vast array of declassified government records, private papers, and personal interviews, America's Great Game tells the riveting story of the merry band of CIA officers whose spy games forever changed U.S. foreign policy.
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Aug 28 2019

Photo: Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, the founding father and first king of Saudi Arabia, at age 34. Created: 31 December 1909. By William Henry Irvine Shakespear - Royal Geographical Society. Public domain..1of4: America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East, by Hugh Wilford. East, by Hugh Wilford. https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Great-Game-Arabists-Shaping/dp/046509628X/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495140203&sr=1-1&keywords=wilford+great+game From the 9/11 attacks to waterboarding to drone strikes, relations between the United States and the Middle East seem caught in a downward spiral. And all too often, the Central Intelligence Agency has made the situation worse. But this crisis was not a historical inevitability—far from it. Indeed, the earliest generation of CIA operatives was actually the region's staunchest western ally. In America's Great Game, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford reveals the surprising history of the CIA's pro-Arab operations in the 1940s and 50s by tracing the work of the agency's three most influential—and colorful—officers in the Middle East. Kermit “Kim” Roosevelt was the grandson of Theodore Roosevelt and the first head of CIA covert action in the region; his cousin, Archie Roosevelt, was a Middle East scholar and chief of the Beirut station. The two Roosevelts joined combined forces with Miles Copeland, a maverick covert operations specialist who had joined the American intelligence establishment during World War II. With their deep knowledge of Middle Eastern affairs, the three men were heirs to an American missionary tradition that engaged Arabs and Muslims with respect and empathy. Yet they were also fascinated by imperial intrigue, and were eager to play a modern rematch of the “Great Game,” the nineteenth-century struggle between Britain and Russia for control over central Asia. Despite their good intentions, these “Arabists” propped up authoritarian regimes, attempted secretly to sway public opinion in America against support for the new state of Israel, and staged coups that irrevocably destabilized the nations with which they empathized. Their efforts, and ultimate failure, would shape the course of U.S.–Middle Eastern relations for decades to come. Based on a vast array of declassified government records, private papers, and personal interviews, America's Great Game tells the riveting story of the merry band of CIA officers whose spy games forever changed U.S. foreign policy.
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Aug 27 2019

Photo: English: Paris street sceneDate | 1942/43Source | Bibliothèque historique de la ville de ParisAuthor | André Zucca | This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
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A Hero of France: 1 of 2: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Alan Furst (Author), Daniel Gerroll (Narrator), Simon &amp; Schuster Audio (Publisher)
https://www.amazon.com/A-Hero-of-France/dp/B01D3BKX68/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=
Alan Furst's latest novel takes place in the secret hotels, nightclubs, and cafes of occupied Paris and the villages of France during the spring of 1941, when Britain was losing the war. Many of the characters are resistance fighters who run an escape line for British airmen down to Spain; they include men and women, old and young, all strong - an aristocrat, a Jewish teacher - and the hero is a hero, has a gun, and uses it. Some of Furst's former characters - including S. Kolb, the spy; and Max de Lyon, former arms dealer, now a nightclub owner - return.
A Hero of France is sure to please existing Furst fans and attract new ones....more

Aug 27 2019

Photo: English: Parisian metro entranceDate | 1942/43Source | Bibliothèque historique de la ville de ParisAuthor | André Zucca | This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain
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A Hero of France: 2 of 2: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Alan Furst (Author), Daniel Gerroll (Narrator), Simon &amp; Schuster Audio (Publisher)
https://www.amazon.com/A-Hero-of-France/dp/B01D3BKX68/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=
Alan Furst's latest novel takes place in the secret hotels, nightclubs, and cafes of occupied Paris and the villages of France during the spring of 1941, when Britain was losing the war. Many of the characters are resistance fighters who run an escape line for British airmen down to Spain; they include men and women, old and young, all strong - an aristocrat, a Jewish teacher - and the hero is a hero, has a gun, and uses it. Some of Furst's former characters - including S. Kolb, the spy; and Max de Lyon, former arms dealer, now a nightclub owner - return.
A Hero of France is sure to please existing Furst fans and attract new ones....more

Aug 27 2019

Photo: English: General Montgomery Inspects Royal Ulster Rifles, May 1944General Sir Bernard Montgomery standing on the bonnet of a jeep speaking to troops of 2nd Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles, after carrying out an inspection of the battalion near Portsmouth in the run-up to D-Day. The battalion had previously served in his division earlier in the war.Date | between 1939 and 1945 Source | http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//60/media-60431/large.jpg | This is photograph H 38645 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. | Author | Morris (Sgt), War Office official photographerPermission(Reusing this file) | This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation.Part of | War Office Second World War Official CollectionSubjects | Associated people and organisationsBritish Army, Royal Ulster Rifles, 2nd Battalion, Montgomery, Bernard LawAssociated placesPortsmouth, Hampshire, England, UKAssociated eventsD-Day, Normandy Landings 1944, North West Europe, Second World WarAssociated themesBritish Army 1939-1945Category | photographsImage Sorted | yesThis image is in the public domain
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Normandy '44: 1 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France Hardcover – June 4, 2019 by James Holland (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Normandy-44-77-Day-Battle-France/dp/0802129420/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Normandy+%2744&amp;qid=1566863958&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=8-1
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west―the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge. Drawing freshly on widespread archives and on the testimonies of eye-witnesses, Holland relates the extraordinary planning that made Allied victory in France possible; indeed, the story of how hundreds of thousands of men, and mountains of materiel, were transported across the English Channel, is as dramatic a human achievement as any battlefield exploit. The brutal landings on the five beaches and subsequent battles across the plains and through the lanes and hedgerows of Normandy―a campaign that, in terms of daily casualties, was worse than any in World War I―come vividly to life in conferences where the strategic decisions of Eisenhower, Rommel, Montgomery, and other commanders were made, and through the memories of paratrooper Lieutenant Dick Winters of Easy Company, British corporal and tanker Reg Spittles, Thunderbolt pilot Archie Maltbie, German ordnance officer Hans Heinze, French resistance leader Robert Leblanc, and many others.
For both sides, the challenges were enormous. The Allies confronted a disciplined German army stretched to its limit, which nonetheless caused tactics to be adjusted on the fly. Ultimately ingenuity, determination, and immense materiel strength―delivered with operational brilliance―made the difference. A stirring narrative by a pre-eminent historian, Normandy ‘44 offers important new perspective on one of history’s most dramatic military engagements and is an invaluable addition to the literature of war....more

Aug 27 2019

Photo: The village in 1944Unknown - http://ahecwebdds.carlisle.army.mil
Ste Mere Eglise, Normandy, June 1944
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Normandy '44: 2 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France Hardcover – June 4, 2019 by James Holland (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Normandy-44-77-Day-Battle-France/dp/0802129420/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Normandy+%2744&amp;qid=1566863958&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=8-1
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west―the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge. Drawing freshly on widespread archives and on the testimonies of eye-witnesses, Holland relates the extraordinary planning that made Allied victory in France possible; indeed, the story of how hundreds of thousands of men, and mountains of materiel, were transported across the English Channel, is as dramatic a human achievement as any battlefield exploit. The brutal landings on the five beaches and subsequent battles across the plains and through the lanes and hedgerows of Normandy―a campaign that, in terms of daily casualties, was worse than any in World War I―come vividly to life in conferences where the strategic decisions of Eisenhower, Rommel, Montgomery, and other commanders were made, and through the memories of paratrooper Lieutenant Dick Winters of Easy Company, British corporal and tanker Reg Spittles, Thunderbolt pilot Archie Maltbie, German ordnance officer Hans Heinze, French resistance leader Robert Leblanc, and many others.
For both sides, the challenges were enormous. The Allies confronted a disciplined German army stretched to its limit, which nonetheless caused tactics to be adjusted on the fly. Ultimately ingenuity, determination, and immense materiel strength―delivered with operational brilliance―made the difference. A stirring narrative by a pre-eminent historian, Normandy ‘44 offers important new perspective on one of history’s most dramatic military engagements and is an invaluable addition to the literature of war....more

Aug 27 2019

Photo: Soldiers of the 43rd Wessex Division seek shelter from German mortar attacks, 10 July.Sergeant Jones No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit - This is photograph B 6852 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-29)
Troops of 130th Brigade, 43rd (Wessex) Division take cover from mortar fire, 10 July 1944. Further Information: Official caption says these are 4th Dorsets but new information is that they are 8th Middlesex (43rd Division's machine-gun battalion).
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Normandy '44: 3 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France Hardcover – June 4, 2019 by James Holland (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Normandy-44-77-Day-Battle-France/dp/0802129420/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Normandy+%2744&amp;qid=1566863958&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=8-1
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west―the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge. Drawing freshly on widespread archives and on the testimonies of eye-witnesses, Holland relates the extraordinary planning that made Allied victory in France possible; indeed, the story of how hundreds of thousands of men, and mountains of materiel, were transported across the English Channel, is as dramatic a human achievement as any battlefield exploit. The brutal landings on the five beaches and subsequent battles across the plains and through the lanes and hedgerows of Normandy―a campaign that, in terms of daily casualties, was worse than any in World War I―come vividly to life in conferences where the strategic decisions of Eisenhower, Rommel, Montgomery, and other commanders were made, and through the memories of paratrooper Lieutenant Dick Winters of Easy Company, British corporal and tanker Reg Spittles, Thunderbolt pilot Archie Maltbie, German ordnance officer Hans Heinze, French resistance leader Robert Leblanc, and many others.
For both sides, the challenges were enormous. The Allies confronted a disciplined German army stretched to its limit, which nonetheless caused tactics to be adjusted on the fly. Ultimately ingenuity, determination, and immense materiel strength―delivered with operational brilliance―made the difference. A stirring narrative by a pre-eminent historian, Normandy ‘44 offers important new perspective on one of history’s most dramatic military engagements and is an invaluable addition to the literature of war....more

Aug 27 2019

Photo: Saint-Lô after U.S. bombing, July 1944Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1984-043-03 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Normandie Front [1944] St. Lô. Ein schwerbeschädigtes Stadtviertel.
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Normandy '44: 4 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France Hardcover – June 4, 2019 by James Holland (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Normandy-44-77-Day-Battle-France/dp/0802129420/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Normandy+%2744&amp;qid=1566863958&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=8-1
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west―the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge. Drawing freshly on widespread archives and on the testimonies of eye-witnesses, Holland relates the extraordinary planning that made Allied victory in France possible; indeed, the story of how hundreds of thousands of men, and mountains of materiel, were transported across the English Channel, is as dramatic a human achievement as any battlefield exploit. The brutal landings on the five beaches and subsequent battles across the plains and through the lanes and hedgerows of Normandy―a campaign that, in terms of daily casualties, was worse than any in World War I―come vividly to life in conferences where the strategic decisions of Eisenhower, Rommel, Montgomery, and other commanders were made, and through the memories of paratrooper Lieutenant Dick Winters of Easy Company, British corporal and tanker Reg Spittles, Thunderbolt pilot Archie Maltbie, German ordnance officer Hans Heinze, French resistance leader Robert Leblanc, and many others.
For both sides, the challenges were enormous. The Allies confronted a disciplined German army stretched to its limit, which nonetheless caused tactics to be adjusted on the fly. Ultimately ingenuity, determination, and immense materiel strength―delivered with operational brilliance―made the difference. A stirring narrative by a pre-eminent historian, Normandy ‘44 offers important new perspective on one of history’s most dramatic military engagements and is an invaluable addition to the literature of war....more

Aug 27 2019

Photo: Français : Chars de déplaçant en position pour attaquer vers Falaise entre Hubert-Folie et Tilly-la-CampagneEnglish: Tanks move into position for attack toward Falaise, between Hubert-Folie and Tilly-la-Campagne.Date | 8 August 1944Source | http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=3205475&rec_nbr_list=3205475Author | Harold G. Aikman/Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada/PA-132904 | This Canadian work is in the public domain
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Normandy '44: 5 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France Hardcover – June 4, 2019 by James Holland (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Normandy-44-77-Day-Battle-France/dp/0802129420/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Normandy+%2744&amp;qid=1566863958&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=8-1
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west―the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge. Drawing freshly on widespread archives and on the testimonies of eye-witnesses, Holland relates the extraordinary planning that made Allied victory in France possible; indeed, the story of how hundreds of thousands of men, and mountains of materiel, were transported across the English Channel, is as dramatic a human achievement as any battlefield exploit. The brutal landings on the five beaches and subsequent battles across the plains and through the lanes and hedgerows of Normandy―a campaign that, in terms of daily casualties, was worse than any in World War I―come vividly to life in conferences where the strategic decisions of Eisenhower, Rommel, Montgomery, and other commanders were made, and through the memories of paratrooper Lieutenant Dick Winters of Easy Company, British corporal and tanker Reg Spittles, Thunderbolt pilot Archie Maltbie, German ordnance officer Hans Heinze, French resistance leader Robert Leblanc, and many others.
For both sides, the challenges were enormous. The Allies confronted a disciplined German army stretched to its limit, which nonetheless caused tactics to be adjusted on the fly. Ultimately ingenuity, determination, and immense materiel strength―delivered with operational brilliance―made the difference. A stirring narrative by a pre-eminent historian, Normandy ‘44 offers important new perspective on one of history’s most dramatic military engagements and is an invaluable addition to the literature of war....more

Aug 27 2019

Photo: US soldiers celebrate with a captured German flag in front of a destroyed Panther tank. The group of infantrymen were left behind to "mop-up" in Chambois, France, last stronghold of the Germans in the Falaise Gap areaDate | 20 August 1944Source | National Archives and Records AdministrationAuthor | US Army Signal Corps | This image is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
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Normandy '44: 6 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France Hardcover – June 4, 2019 by James Holland (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Normandy-44-77-Day-Battle-France/dp/0802129420/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Normandy+%2744&amp;qid=1566863958&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=8-1
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west―the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge. Drawing freshly on widespread archives and on the testimonies of eye-witnesses, Holland relates the extraordinary planning that made Allied victory in France possible; indeed, the story of how hundreds of thousands of men, and mountains of materiel, were transported across the English Channel, is as dramatic a human achievement as any battlefield exploit. The brutal landings on the five beaches and subsequent battles across the plains and through the lanes and hedgerows of Normandy―a campaign that, in terms of daily casualties, was worse than any in World War I―come vividly to life in conferences where the strategic decisions of Eisenhower, Rommel, Montgomery, and other commanders were made, and through the memories of paratrooper Lieutenant Dick Winters of Easy Company, British corporal and tanker Reg Spittles, Thunderbolt pilot Archie Maltbie, German ordnance officer Hans Heinze, French resistance leader Robert Leblanc, and many others.
For both sides, the challenges were enormous. The Allies confronted a disciplined German army stretched to its limit, which nonetheless caused tactics to be adjusted on the fly. Ultimately ingenuity, determination, and immense materiel strength―delivered with operational brilliance―made the difference. A stirring narrative by a pre-eminent historian, Normandy ‘44 offers important new perspective on one of history’s most dramatic military engagements and is an invaluable addition to the literature of war....more

Aug 27 2019

Photo: The U.S. 28th Infantry Division on the Champs Élysées in the "Victory Day" parade on 29 August 1944. American_troops_march_down_the_Champs_Elysees.jpg: Poinsett / Signal Corps derivative work: SilkTork (talk) - American_troops_march_down_the_Champs_Elysees.jpg
American troops of the 28th Infantry Division march down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris, in the `Victory' Parade.
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Normandy '44: 7 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France Hardcover – June 4, 2019 by James Holland (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Normandy-44-77-Day-Battle-France/dp/0802129420/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Normandy+%2744&amp;qid=1566863958&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=8-1
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west―the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge. Drawing freshly on widespread archives and on the testimonies of eye-witnesses, Holland relates the extraordinary planning that made Allied victory in France possible; indeed, the story of how hundreds of thousands of men, and mountains of materiel, were transported across the English Channel, is as dramatic a human achievement as any battlefield exploit. The brutal landings on the five beaches and subsequent battles across the plains and through the lanes and hedgerows of Normandy―a campaign that, in terms of daily casualties, was worse than any in World War I―come vividly to life in conferences where the strategic decisions of Eisenhower, Rommel, Montgomery, and other commanders were made, and through the memories of paratrooper Lieutenant Dick Winters of Easy Company, British corporal and tanker Reg Spittles, Thunderbolt pilot Archie Maltbie, German ordnance officer Hans Heinze, French resistance leader Robert Leblanc, and many others.
For both sides, the challenges were enormous. The Allies confronted a disciplined German army stretched to its limit, which nonetheless caused tactics to be adjusted on the fly. Ultimately ingenuity, determination, and immense materiel strength―delivered with operational brilliance―made the difference. A stirring narrative by a pre-eminent historian, Normandy ‘44 offers important new perspective on one of history’s most dramatic military engagements and is an invaluable addition to the literature of war....more

Aug 27 2019

Photo: Three-cent stamp picturing the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, with marching U.S. Army soldiers and an overflight by U.S. Army Air Force.Bureau of Printing and Engraving -- U.S. Post Office - Arago: people, postage & the post online, National Postal Museum
1945 3-cent stamp picturing the Arc de Triumph in Paris France with marching U.S. Army soldiers and an overflight by U.S. Army Air Force.
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Normandy '44: 8 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France Hardcover – June 4, 2019 by James Holland (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Normandy-44-77-Day-Battle-France/dp/0802129420/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Normandy+%2744&amp;qid=1566863958&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=8-1
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west―the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge. Drawing freshly on widespread archives and on the testimonies of eye-witnesses, Holland relates the extraordinary planning that made Allied victory in France possible; indeed, the story of how hundreds of thousands of men, and mountains of materiel, were transported across the English Channel, is as dramatic a human achievement as any battlefield exploit. The brutal landings on the five beaches and subsequent battles across the plains and through the lanes and hedgerows of Normandy―a campaign that, in terms of daily casualties, was worse than any in World War I―come vividly to life in conferences where the strategic decisions of Eisenhower, Rommel, Montgomery, and other commanders were made, and through the memories of paratrooper Lieutenant Dick Winters of Easy Company, British corporal and tanker Reg Spittles, Thunderbolt pilot Archie Maltbie, German ordnance officer Hans Heinze, French resistance leader Robert Leblanc, and many others.
For both sides, the challenges were enormous. The Allies confronted a disciplined German army stretched to its limit, which nonetheless caused tactics to be adjusted on the fly. Ultimately ingenuity, determination, and immense materiel strength―delivered with operational brilliance―made the difference. A stirring narrative by a pre-eminent historian, Normandy ‘44 offers important new perspective on one of history’s most dramatic military engagements and is an invaluable addition to the literature of war....more

Aug 26 2019

Image: A painting inside the Tây Ninh Holy See depicts the three saints signing an accord between God and Humanity. From left to right: Sun Yat-sen, Victor Hugo and Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm.Author: Nguyễn Thanh Quang
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cao_Dai_three_saints_signing_an_accord.jpg .The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America’s worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century. Yet a complete understanding of the endgame—from the 27 January 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South Vietnam’s surrender on 30 April 1975—has eluded us. Black April addresses that deficit. A culmination of exhaustive research in three distinct areas: primary source documents from American archives, North Vietnamese publications containing primary and secondary source material, and dozens of articles and numerous interviews with key South Vietnamese participants, this book represents one of the largest Vietnamese translation projects ever accomplished, including almost one hundred rarely or never seen before North Vietnamese unit histories, battle studies, and memoirs. Most important, to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of South Vietnam’s conquest, the leaders in Hanoi released several compendiums of formerly highly classified cables and memorandum between the Politburo and its military commanders in the south. This treasure trove of primary source materials provides the most complete insight into North Vietnamese decision-making ever complied. While South Vietnamese deliberations remain less clear, enough material exists to provide a decent overview. Ultimately, whatever errors occurred on the American and South Vietnamese side, the simple fact remains that the country was conquered by a North Vietnamese military invasion despite written pledges by Hanoi’s leadership against such action. Hanoi’s momentous choice to destroy the Paris Peace Accords and militarily end the war sent a generation of South Vietnamese into exile, and exacerbated a societal trauma in America over our long Vietnam involvement that reverberates to this day. How that transpired deserves deeper scrutiny.
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Aug 26 2019

Image: Emblem of Vietnam. Public domain.. The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America’s worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century. Yet a complete understanding of the endgame—from the 27 January 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South Vietnam’s surrender on 30 April 1975—has eluded us. Black April addresses that deficit. A culmination of exhaustive research in three distinct areas: primary source documents from American archives, North Vietnamese publications containing primary and secondary source material, and dozens of articles and numerous interviews with key South Vietnamese participants, this book represents one of the largest Vietnamese translation projects ever accomplished, including almost one hundred rarely or never seen before North Vietnamese unit histories, battle studies, and memoirs. Most important, to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of South Vietnam’s conquest, the leaders in Hanoi released several compendiums of formerly highly classified cables and memorandum between the Politburo and its military commanders in the south. This treasure trove of primary source materials provides the most complete insight into North Vietnamese decision-making ever complied. While South Vietnamese deliberations remain less clear, enough material exists to provide a decent overview. Ultimately, whatever errors occurred on the American and South Vietnamese side, the simple fact remains that the country was conquered by a North Vietnamese military invasion despite written pledges by Hanoi’s leadership against such action. Hanoi’s momentous choice to destroy the Paris Peace Accords and militarily end the war sent a generation of South Vietnamese into exile, and exacerbated a societal trauma in America over our long Vietnam involvement that reverberates to this day. How that transpired deserves deeper scrutiny.
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Aug 26 2019

Image: Picture of the "Agreement" copy on ending war and restoring peace in Vietnam. Picture taken at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, USA. Author: Sanjay Acharya
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.The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America’s worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century. Yet a complete understanding of the endgame—from the 27 January 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South Vietnam’s surrender on 30 April 1975—has eluded us. Black April addresses that deficit. A culmination of exhaustive research in three distinct areas: primary source documents from American archives, North Vietnamese publications containing primary and secondary source material, and dozens of articles and numerous interviews with key South Vietnamese participants, this book represents one of the largest Vietnamese translation projects ever accomplished, including almost one hundred rarely or never seen before North Vietnamese unit histories, battle studies, and memoirs. Most important, to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of South Vietnam’s conquest, the leaders in Hanoi released several compendiums of formerly highly classified cables and memorandum between the Politburo and its military commanders in the south. This treasure trove of primary source materials provides the most complete insight into North Vietnamese decision-making ever complied. While South Vietnamese deliberations remain less clear, enough material exists to provide a decent overview. Ultimately, whatever errors occurred on the American and South Vietnamese side, the simple fact remains that the country was conquered by a North Vietnamese military invasion despite written pledges by Hanoi’s leadership against such action. Hanoi’s momentous choice to destroy the Paris Peace Accords and militarily end the war sent a generation of South Vietnamese into exile, and exacerbated a societal trauma in America over our long Vietnam involvement that reverberates to this day. How that transpired deserves deeper scrutiny.
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Aug 26 2019

Image: A male drug store in Sa Pa (Lao Cai, Vietnam). Cửa hàng thuốc nam.jpgAuthor: Bùi Thụy Đào Nguyên
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Peace_Accords#/media/File:Vietnam_Peace_Treaty_1973.The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America’s worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century. Yet a complete understanding of the endgame—from the 27 January 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South Vietnam’s surrender on 30 April 1975—has eluded us. Black April addresses that deficit. A culmination of exhaustive research in three distinct areas: primary source documents from American archives, North Vietnamese publications containing primary and secondary source material, and dozens of articles and numerous interviews with key South Vietnamese participants, this book represents one of the largest Vietnamese translation projects ever accomplished, including almost one hundred rarely or never seen before North Vietnamese unit histories, battle studies, and memoirs. Most important, to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of South Vietnam’s conquest, the leaders in Hanoi released several compendiums of formerly highly classified cables and memorandum between the Politburo and its military commanders in the south. This treasure trove of primary source materials provides the most complete insight into North Vietnamese decision-making ever complied. While South Vietnamese deliberations remain less clear, enough material exists to provide a decent overview. Ultimately, whatever errors occurred on the American and South Vietnamese side, the simple fact remains that the country was conquered by a North Vietnamese military invasion despite written pledges by Hanoi’s leadership against such action. Hanoi’s momentous choice to destroy the Paris Peace Accords and militarily end the war sent a generation of South Vietnamese into exile, and exacerbated a societal trauma in America over our long Vietnam involvement that reverberates to this day. How that transpired deserves deeper scrutiny.
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Aug 26 2019

Photo: Čeština: Pomořanská a Slezská operace Rudé armádyDate | 1945Source | Ministry of Defence of USSRAuthor | Ministry of Defence of USSR | This work is not an object of copyright according to article 1259 of Book IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation No. 230-FZ of December 18, 2006.
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Human Game: 1 of 4: Hunting the Great Escape Murderers Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Simon Read (Author), Joe Jameson (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)
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“In the summer of 1945, British investigator Francis McKenna and his team began a trek across post-war #Europe to pursue the men who murdered British #POWs in cold blood following the famous #GreatEscape from Stalag Luft III in March #1944. Simon Read details the hunt in a book that is one part detective story and one part morality play, striking themes that will resonate in the present day. Remarkably, many of the Germans who witnessed or were tangentially involved in the atrocity retained an active sense of guilt and helped the investigators, even when it put them at risk for retribution from both sides. Simon Read has done an impressive job stitching together a highly readable and informative story from various sources, and making it live again.”—Jim DeFelice, bestselling author of Rangers at Dieppe, Omar Bradley: General at War, and American Sniper __ “A gut-wrenching account of World War II’s Great Escape and its brutal aftermath. Simon Read’s riveting tale of the #RoyalAirForce’s #RAF manhunt for the #Gestapo perpetrators of the cold-blooded murder of fifty unarmed Allied escapees will touch your soul and increase your admiration for the ‘Greatest Generation.’ Whether justice ultimately triumphed over evil can be found in Read’s engrossing narrative.”—Colonel Cole C. Kingseed, USA (Ret.), New York Times bestselling coauthor of Beyond Band of Brothers
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Aug 26 2019

Photo: British Prisoners of War in Germany, 1940-1945British POWs at work in a quarry at the town of Laband, the base for working parties E1 and E708 from Stalag VIIIB.Date | between 1939 and 1945 Source | http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//294/media-294822/large.jpg | This is photograph HU 9211 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. | Author | German official photographerPermission(Reusing this file) | This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation.Part of | The British Army 1940 - 1945- British Prisoners of War in Poland and GermanySubjects | Associated people and organisationsBritish Army, Stalag VIIIB, Lamsdorf, Lower Silesia, GermanyAssociated placesGliwice, Upper Silesia, Poland, Łabędy, Gliwice, Upper Silesia, PolandAssociated themesBritish Army 1939-1945, Prisoners of War, Europe 1939-1945Associated keywordsPrisonersCategory | photographsThis image is in the public domain b
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“In the summer of 1945, British investigator Francis McKenna and his team began a trek across post-war #Europe to pursue the men who murdered British #POWs in cold blood following the famous #GreatEscape from Stalag Luft III in March #1944. Simon Read details the hunt in a book that is one part detective story and one part morality play, striking themes that will resonate in the present day. Remarkably, many of the Germans who witnessed or were tangentially involved in the atrocity retained an active sense of guilt and helped the investigators, even when it put them at risk for retribution from both sides. Simon Read has done an impressive job stitching together a highly readable and informative story from various sources, and making it live again.”—Jim DeFelice, bestselling author of Rangers at Dieppe, Omar Bradley: General at War, and American Sniper __ “A gut-wrenching account of World War II’s Great Escape and its brutal aftermath. Simon Read’s riveting tale of the #RoyalAirForce’s #RAF manhunt for the #Gestapo perpetrators of the cold-blooded murder of fifty unarmed Allied escapees will touch your soul and increase your admiration for the ‘Greatest Generation.’ Whether justice ultimately triumphed over evil can be found in Read’s engrossing narrative.”—Colonel Cole C. Kingseed, USA (Ret.), New York Times bestselling coauthor of Beyond Band of Brothers
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Aug 26 2019

Photo: Joseph Goebbels awards 16-year-old Hitler Youth member Willi Hübner the Iron Cross for the defense of Lauban.Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-J31305 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Auszeichnung des Hitlerjungen Willi Hübner ADN-ZB/Archiv 9.3.1945 II. Weltkrieg 1939-45 Deutsch-Sowjetische Front: Reichspropagandaminister Goebbels begrüßt in Lauban (Niederschlesien) den mit dem EK II ausgezeichneten 16jährigen Willi Hübner, der während der Kämpfe um die Stadt im März 1945 im Schützengraben eingesetzt wurde. [Joseph Goebbels, Willi Hübner]
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“In the summer of 1945, British investigator Francis McKenna and his team began a trek across post-war #Europe to pursue the men who murdered British #POWs in cold blood following the famous #GreatEscape from Stalag Luft III in March #1944. Simon Read details the hunt in a book that is one part detective story and one part morality play, striking themes that will resonate in the present day. Remarkably, many of the Germans who witnessed or were tangentially involved in the atrocity retained an active sense of guilt and helped the investigators, even when it put them at risk for retribution from both sides. Simon Read has done an impressive job stitching together a highly readable and informative story from various sources, and making it live again.”—Jim DeFelice, bestselling author of Rangers at Dieppe, Omar Bradley: General at War, and American Sniper __ “A gut-wrenching account of World War II’s Great Escape and its brutal aftermath. Simon Read’s riveting tale of the #RoyalAirForce’s #RAF manhunt for the #Gestapo perpetrators of the cold-blooded murder of fifty unarmed Allied escapees will touch your soul and increase your admiration for the ‘Greatest Generation.’ Whether justice ultimately triumphed over evil can be found in Read’s engrossing narrative.”—Colonel Cole C. Kingseed, USA (Ret.), New York Times bestselling coauthor of Beyond Band of Brothers
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Aug 26 2019

Photo: English: British Prisoners of War in Germany, 1940-1945British concert party on the stage during the performance at the town of Laband, the base for working parties E1 and E708 from Stalag VIIIB, May 1942. Their band initials are RR.Date | May 1942 (Second World War)Source | http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//294/media-294825/large.jpg | This is photograph HU 9261 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. | Author | German official photographerPermission(Reusing this file) | This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation.Part of | The British Army 1940 - 1945- British Prisoners of War in Poland and GermanySubjects | Associated people and organisationsBritish Army, Stalag VIIIB, Lamsdorf, Lower Silesia, GermanyAssociated placesGliwice, Upper Silesia, Poland, Łabędy, Gliwice, Upper Silesia, PolandAssociated themesBritish Army 1939-1945, Prisoners of War, Europe 1939-1945Associated keywordstheatre, Rest &amp; Relaxation, Prisoners, Humour, MusicCategory | photographsThis image is in the public domain
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Human Game: 4 of 4: Hunting the Great Escape Murderers Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Simon Read (Author), Joe Jameson (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)
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“In the summer of 1945, British investigator Francis McKenna and his team began a trek across post-war #Europe to pursue the men who murdered British #POWs in cold blood following the famous #GreatEscape from Stalag Luft III in March #1944. Simon Read details the hunt in a book that is one part detective story and one part morality play, striking themes that will resonate in the present day. Remarkably, many of the Germans who witnessed or were tangentially involved in the atrocity retained an active sense of guilt and helped the investigators, even when it put them at risk for retribution from both sides. Simon Read has done an impressive job stitching together a highly readable and informative story from various sources, and making it live again.”—Jim DeFelice, bestselling author of Rangers at Dieppe, Omar Bradley: General at War, and American Sniper __ “A gut-wrenching account of World War II’s Great Escape and its brutal aftermath. Simon Read’s riveting tale of the #RoyalAirForce’s #RAF manhunt for the #Gestapo perpetrators of the cold-blooded murder of fifty unarmed Allied escapees will touch your soul and increase your admiration for the ‘Greatest Generation.’ Whether justice ultimately triumphed over evil can be found in Read’s engrossing narrative.”—Colonel Cole C. Kingseed, USA (Ret.), New York Times bestselling coauthor of Beyond Band of Brothers
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Aug 26 2019

Photo: Removal of platforms at West Philadelphia station in January 1931 to prepare for the construction of 30th Street stationDate | 9 January 1931Source | Temple University Library - George D. McDowell Collection, originally published in the Philadelphia Evening BulletinAuthor | George D. McDowellPermission(Reusing this file) | | This work is in the public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowMixed indicators on the possibility of Recession in 2020. @GeneMarksSurvey Reveals Bankers' Views on Industry More Optimistic Than They Have Been in Nearly Two Years Despite Impacts of Ongoing Trade Warhttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/survey-reveals-bankers-views-industry-more-optimistic-nearly-120000421.html?soc_src=social-sh&amp;soc_trk=twU.S. Small Businesses Are Hiring Fewer Workers
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Aug 25 2019

Image: Epaminondas defending Pelopidas at the Siege of Mantinea (385 BCE), before his great invasion of the Peloponnesus in 369 BC. Public domain..."The Darwinian human spiral has not changed human thinking all that much."—VDH.Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome Kindle Edition, by Victor Davis Hanson (Editor) In this prequel to the now-classic Makers of Modern Strategy, Victor Davis Hanson, a leading scholar of ancient military history, gathers prominent thinkers to explore key facets of warfare, strategy, and foreign policy in the Greco-Roman world. From the Persian Wars to the final defense of the Roman Empire, Makers of Ancient Strategy demonstrates that the military thinking and policies of the ancient Greeks and Romans remain surprisingly relevant for understanding conflict in the modern world. https://www.amazon.com/Makers-Ancient-Strategy-Persian-Wars-ebook/dp/B003NX6KPA/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Makers+of+Ancient+Strategy&amp;qid=1566692404&amp;s=digital-text&amp;sr=1-1 The book reveals that much of the organized violence witnessed today--such as counterterrorism, urban fighting, insurgencies, preemptive war, and ethnic cleansing--has ample precedent in the classical era. The book examines the preemption and unilateralism used to instill democracy during Epaminondas's great invasion of the Peloponnesus in 369 BC, as well as the counterinsurgency and terrorism that characterized Rome's battles with insurgents such as Spartacus, Mithridates, and the Cilician pirates. The collection looks at the urban warfare that became increasingly common as more battles were fought within city walls, and follows the careful tactical strategies of statesmen as diverse as Pericles, Demosthenes, Alexander, Pyrrhus, Caesar, and Augustus. Makers of Ancient Strategy shows how Greco-Roman history sheds light on wars of every age. In addition to the editor, the contributors are David L. Berkey, Adrian Goldsworthy, Peter J. Heather, Tom Holland, Donald Kagan, John W. I. Lee, Susan Mattern, Barry Strauss, and Ian Worthington... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Note: Victor Davis Hanson considered the main areas of wars today — counterinsurgency, terrorism, frontier defense, winning hearts and minds, pre-emption and multilateralism, and the like — that dominate the contemporary landscape, then thought of the most learned writers today who’ve studied these, and invited those authors to submit essays on the relevant current topics.
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Aug 25 2019

Image: The Death of Spartacus, by Hermann Vogel, 1888. Public domain..."The Darwinian human spiral has not changed human thinking all that much."—VDH.Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome Kindle Edition, by Victor Davis Hanson (Editor) In this prequel to the now-classic Makers of Modern Strategy, Victor Davis Hanson, a leading scholar of ancient military history, gathers prominent thinkers to explore key facets of warfare, strategy, and foreign policy in the Greco-Roman world. From the Persian Wars to the final defense of the Roman Empire, Makers of Ancient Strategy demonstrates that the military thinking and policies of the ancient Greeks and Romans remain surprisingly relevant for understanding conflict in the modern world. https://www.amazon.com/Makers-Ancient-Strategy-Persian-Wars-ebook/dp/B003NX6KPA/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Makers+of+Ancient+Strategy&amp;qid=1566692404&amp;s=digital-text&amp;sr=1-1 The book reveals that much of the organized violence witnessed today--such as counterterrorism, urban fighting, insurgencies, preemptive war, and ethnic cleansing--has ample precedent in the classical era. The book examines the preemption and unilateralism used to instill democracy during Epaminondas's great invasion of the Peloponnesus in 369 BC, as well as the counterinsurgency and terrorism that characterized Rome's battles with insurgents such as Spartacus, Mithridates, and the Cilician pirates. The collection looks at the urban warfare that became increasingly common as more battles were fought within city walls, and follows the careful tactical strategies of statesmen as diverse as Pericles, Demosthenes, Alexander, Pyrrhus, Caesar, and Augustus. Makers of Ancient Strategy shows how Greco-Roman history sheds light on wars of every age. In addition to the editor, the contributors are David L. Berkey, Adrian Goldsworthy, Peter J. Heather, Tom Holland, Donald Kagan, John W. I. Lee, Susan Mattern, Barry Strauss, and Ian Worthington.
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Aug 25 2019

Image: Anatolia after 188 BC, including ancient Cilicia, whence the pirates. This south coastal region of Asia Minor existed as a political entity from the Hittite era until the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, during the late Byzantine Empire. In early times, 16th–14th century BC, it was Kizzuwatna; 12th–8th century BC was Khilikku, Tabal, Quwê). The main languages were Luwian, Akkadian, Phoenician, Persian, and Armenian. There were always pirates in the ancient world, but in the second half of the second century BCE, they became really dangerous and started to destabilize the Mediterranean world. Two factors contributed to their rise: the powerful Seleucid empire, which had controlled the seas, started to disintegrate after c.150; also, the Roman elite had to buy slaves to work on the large plantations (latifundia) in Italy. Although Rome had already sent a navy commanded by a praetor named Marcus Antonius as early as 104 BCE, it refused to take real measures. It needed the pirates..."The Darwinian human spiral has not changed human thinking all that much."—VDH.Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome Kindle Edition, by Victor Davis Hanson (Editor) In this prequel to the now-classic Makers of Modern Strategy, Victor Davis Hanson, a leading scholar of ancient military history, gathers prominent thinkers to explore key facets of warfare, strategy, and foreign policy in the Greco-Roman world. From the Persian Wars to the final defense of the Roman Empire, Makers of Ancient Strategy demonstrates that the military thinking and policies of the ancient Greeks and Romans remain surprisingly relevant for understanding conflict in the modern world. https://www.amazon.com/Makers-Ancient-Strategy-Persian-Wars-ebook/dp/B003NX6KPA/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Makers+of+Ancient+Strategy&amp;qid=1566692404&amp;s=digital-text&amp;sr=1-1 The book reveals that much of the organized violence witnessed today--such as counterterrorism, urban fighting, insurgencies, preemptive war, and ethnic cleansing--has ample precedent in the classical era. The book examines the preemption and unilateralism used to instill democracy during Epaminondas's great invasion of the Peloponnesus in 369 BC, as well as the counterinsurgency and terrorism that characterized Rome's battles with insurgents such as Spartacus, Mithridates, and the Cilician pirates. The collection looks at the urban warfare that became increasingly common as more battles were fought within city walls, and follows the careful tactical strategies of statesmen as diverse as Pericles, Demosthenes, Alexander, Pyrrhus, Caesar, and Augustus. Makers of Ancient Strategy shows how Greco-Roman history sheds light on wars of every age. In addition to the editor, the contributors are David L. Berkey, Adrian Goldsworthy, Peter J. Heather, Tom Holland, Donald Kagan, John W. I. Lee, Susan Mattern, Barry Strauss, and Ian Worthington.
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Aug 25 2019

Image: Alexander at the Battle of Gaugamela; by Marshall Monroe Kirkman, 1842-1921 - History of Alexander the Great, published in 1913. Public domain.
In 331 BC Alexander's army of the Hellenic League met the Persian army of Darius III near Gaugamela, close to the modern city of Duhok in Iraqi Kurdistan. Though heavily outnumbered, Alexander emerged victorious due to his army's superior tactics and his deft employment of light infantry. It was a decisive victory for the Hellenic League and led to the fall of the Achaemenid Empire. Note that there still exists there a large mound, a sort of small hillock, where Alexander obliged his soldiers to carry large baskets of earth and empty them in order to strengthen them for the following day’s battle. It remains untouched till today on the road from Duhok to Erbil. [reported as seen by JBS editor].."The Darwinian human spiral has not changed human thinking all that much."—VDH.
Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome, Kindle Edition, by Victor Davis Hanson (Editor)In this prequel to the now-classic Makers of Modern Strategy, Victor Davis Hanson, a leading scholar of ancient military history, gathers prominent thinkers to explore key facets of warfare, strategy, and foreign policy in the Greco-Roman world. From the Persian Wars to the final defense of the Roman Empire, Makers of Ancient Strategy demonstrates that the military thinking and policies of the ancient Greeks and Romans remain surprisingly relevant for understanding conflict in the modern world.https://www.amazon.com/Makers-Ancient-Strategy-Persian-Wars-ebook/dp/B003NX6KPA/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Makers+of+Ancient+Strategy&amp;qid=1566692404&amp;s=digital-text&amp;sr=1-1The book reveals that much of the organized violence witnessed today--such as counterterrorism, urban fighting, insurgencies, preemptive war, and ethnic cleansing--has ample precedent in the classical era. The book examines the preemption and unilateralism used to instill democracy during Epaminondas's great invasion of the Peloponnesus in 369 BC, as well as the counterinsurgency and terrorism that characterized Rome's battles with insurgents such as Spartacus, Mithridates, and the Cilician pirates. The collection looks at the urban warfare that became increasingly common as more battles were fought within city walls, and follows the careful tactical strategies of statesmen as diverse as Pericles, Demosthenes, Alexander, Pyrrhus, Caesar, and Augustus. Makers of Ancient Strategy shows how Greco-Roman history sheds light on wars of every age. In addition to the editor, the contributors are David L. Berkey, Adrian Goldsworthy, Peter J. Heather, Tom Holland, Donald Kagan, John W. I. Lee, Susan Mattern, Barry Strauss, and Ian Worthington.
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Aug 25 2019

Photo: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower visits Cape Kennedy. KSC-PL60-51251NASAhttps://images.nasa.gov/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain Dedication (CC0)
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Ike's Bluff: 1 of 4: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Evan Thomas (Author), Brian Troxell (Narrator), Hachette Audio (Publisher)
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Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight. Yet behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness was a brilliant, intellectual tactician. As Evan Thomas reveals in his provocative examination of Ike's White House years, Eisenhower was a master of calculated duplicity. As with his bridge and poker games he was eventually forced to stop playing after leaving too many fellow army officers insolvent, Ike could be patient and ruthless in the con, and generous and expedient in his partnerships. Facing the Soviet Union, China, and his own generals, some of whom believed a first strike was the only means of survival, Eisenhower would make his boldest and riskiest bet yet, one of such enormity that there could be but two outcomes: the survival of the world, or its end.
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Aug 25 2019

Photo: PRESIDENT DWIGHT EISENHOWER VISIT TO MSFC FOR THE DEDICATION OF THE CENTER.NASAhttps://images.nasa.gov/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain Dedication (CC0)
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Ike's Bluff: 2 of 4: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Evan Thomas (Author), Brian Troxell (Narrator), Hachette Audio (Publisher)
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Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight. Yet behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness was a brilliant, intellectual tactician. As Evan Thomas reveals in his provocative examination of Ike's White House years, Eisenhower was a master of calculated duplicity. As with his bridge and poker games he was eventually forced to stop playing after leaving too many fellow army officers insolvent, Ike could be patient and ruthless in the con, and generous and expedient in his partnerships. Facing the Soviet Union, China, and his own generals, some of whom believed a first strike was the only means of survival, Eisenhower would make his boldest and riskiest bet yet, one of such enormity that there could be but two outcomes: the survival of the world, or its end.
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Aug 25 2019

Photo: PRESIDENT DWIGHT EISENHOWER VISIT TO MSFC FOR THE DEDICATION OF THE CENTER.NASAhttps://images.nasa.gov/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain Dedication (CC0)
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Ike's Bluff: 3 of 4: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Evan Thomas (Author), Brian Troxell (Narrator), Hachette Audio (Publisher)
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Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight. Yet behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness was a brilliant, intellectual tactician. As Evan Thomas reveals in his provocative examination of Ike's White House years, Eisenhower was a master of calculated duplicity. As with his bridge and poker games he was eventually forced to stop playing after leaving too many fellow army officers insolvent, Ike could be patient and ruthless in the con, and generous and expedient in his partnerships. Facing the Soviet Union, China, and his own generals, some of whom believed a first strike was the only means of survival, Eisenhower would make his boldest and riskiest bet yet, one of such enormity that there could be but two outcomes: the survival of the world, or its end.
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Aug 25 2019

Photo: General view of ceremonies at Lincoln Square when President Eisenhower was applauded / World Telegram & Sun photo by Ed FordLibrary of Congresshttp://www.loc.gov/copyrightCopyright infoNo copyright restriction known. Staff photographer reproduction rights transferred to Library of Congress through Instrument of Gift..
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Ike's Bluff: 4 of 4: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Evan Thomas (Author), Brian Troxell (Narrator), Hachette Audio (Publisher)
https://www.amazon.com/Ikes-Bluff-President-Eisenhowers-Secret/dp/B009GBX6L4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1566695141&amp;sr=1-2
Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight. Yet behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness was a brilliant, intellectual tactician. As Evan Thomas reveals in his provocative examination of Ike's White House years, Eisenhower was a master of calculated duplicity. As with his bridge and poker games he was eventually forced to stop playing after leaving too many fellow army officers insolvent, Ike could be patient and ruthless in the con, and generous and expedient in his partnerships. Facing the Soviet Union, China, and his own generals, some of whom believed a first strike was the only means of survival, Eisenhower would make his boldest and riskiest bet yet, one of such enormity that there could be but two outcomes: the survival of the world, or its end.
This is the story of how he won....more

Aug 25 2019

Photo: This feature on Europa was seen as a dark, diffuse circular patch on a previous Galileo global image of Europa's leading hemisphere on April 3, 1997. The "bulls-eye" pattern appears to be a 140- kilometer (86-mile) wide impact scar (about the size of the island of Hawaii) which formed as the surface fractured minutes after a mountain-sized asteroid or comet slammed into the satellite. This approximately 214-kilometer (132-mile) wide picture is the product of three images which have been processed in false color to enhance shapes and compositions.
North is toward the top of this picture, which is illuminated from sunlight coming from the west. This color composite reveals a sequence of events which have modified the surface of Europa. The earliest event was the impact which formed the Tyre structure at 34 degrees north latitude and 146.5 degrees west longitude. The impact was followed by the formation of the reddish lines superposed on Tyre. The red color designates areas that are probably a dirty water ice mixture. The fine blue-green lines crossing the region from west to east appear to be ridges which formed after the crater.
The images were taken on April 4, 1997, at a resolution of 595 meters (1950 feet) per picture element and a range of 29,000 kilometers (17,900 miles). The images were taken by Galileo's solid state imaging (CCD) system.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA manages the Galileo mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, DC. JPL is an operating division of California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
This image and other images and data received from Galileo are posted on the World Wide Web, on the Galileo mission home page at URL http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov. Background information and educational context for the images can be found at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo.
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Aug 25 2019

Photo: English: A view from the "Kimberley" formation on Mars taken by NASA's Curiosity rover. The strata in the foreground dip towards the base of Mount Sharp, indicating flow of water toward a basin that existed before the larger bulk of the mountain formed. The colors are adjusted so that rocks look approximately as they would if they were on Earth, to help geologists interpret the rocks. This "white balancing" to adjust for the lighting on Mars overly compensates for the absence of blue on Mars, making the sky appear light blue and sometimes giving dark, black rocks a blue cast. This image was taken by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on Curiosity on the 580th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.Date | 28 March 2018Source | https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/7505/Author | Jim Secosky picked out a NASA image NASA/JPL-Caltech | This file is in the public domain
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Aug 24 2019

Photo: Lot-9630-5: WWI German Activities. The German U-Boat. Christmas Celebration by U-boat crew. Artwork by Felix Schwormstadt. Halftone image from the publication, “The Imperial Navy in the World War,” 1914-17. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/10/21).Date | 21 October 2016, 09:35Source | Lot-9630-5Author | National Museum of the U.S. Navy
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http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCode Name Caesar: 1 of 2: The Secret Hunt for U-Boat 864 During World War II Kindle Edition. by Jerome Preisler (Author), Kenneth Sewell (Author)
In February of 1944, Germany and Japan devised a desperate plan to escape defeat. The Germans would send Japan a submarine—boat U-864—packed with their most advanced rocket and jet aircraft technology. Japan could then reestablish air superiority in the Pacific, drawing the attention of Allied forces long enough for Germany to regroup. Meanwhile, British code breakers, working with the Norwegian underground, had discovered the plan. But even though they were unable to stop the submarine from embarking, the British submarine HMS Venturer was waiting for it at sea. In a cat-and-mouse battle beneath the waves, they hunted one another, each waiting to strike. The Venturer won the game, becoming the only submarine in history to sink another sub in underwater combat. This is the dramatic, action-packed account of one of the greatest unsung victories in military history, and of a historical moment in the annals of naval warfare....more

Aug 24 2019

Photo: Submarine E-1 made in Spain in 1929-30 year by project of dutch Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw (IvS) (founded by 4 German ship building yards: AG Vulkan yard (Hamburg and Stettin), two Krupp-owned yards, Germaniawerft (Kiel) and AG Weser(Bremen), prototype of soviet u-boats type "C" ( "Средняя") "S" ( "Srednaya") (Middle)Submarino E-1 contruido en los Astilleros Echevarrieta y Larrinaga, Cádiz, España en 1929-30. proyecto alemán desarrollado en los astilleros holandeses Ingenieurskantoor voor ScheepsbouwDate | 1931Source | scan from book М. Э. Морозов, К. Л. Кулагин «Эски» в бою. Подводные лодки Маринеско, Щедрина, Лисина. — М.: Коллекция, Яуза, ЭКСМО, 2008. — 128 с. — ISBN 978-5-699-25627-3Author | UnknownPermission(Reusing this file) | | This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright termis the author's life plus 70 years or less.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCode Name Caesar: 2 of 2: The Secret Hunt for U-Boat 864 During World War II Kindle Edition. by Jerome Preisler (Author), Kenneth Sewell (Author)
In February of 1944, Germany and Japan devised a desperate plan to escape defeat. The Germans would send Japan a submarine—boat U-864—packed with their most advanced rocket and jet aircraft technology. Japan could then reestablish air superiority in the Pacific, drawing the attention of Allied forces long enough for Germany to regroup. Meanwhile, British code breakers, working with the Norwegian underground, had discovered the plan. But even though they were unable to stop the submarine from embarking, the British submarine HMS Venturer was waiting for it at sea. In a cat-and-mouse battle beneath the waves, they hunted one another, each waiting to strike. The Venturer won the game, becoming the only submarine in history to sink another sub in underwater combat. This is the dramatic, action-packed account of one of the greatest unsung victories in military history, and of a historical moment in the annals of naval warfare....more

Aug 24 2019

Photo: Title: Vue general de Louqsor Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print : albumen.Date | 1867Source | Library of CongressCatalog: https://lccn.loc.gov/2004667878Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/03900/03978v.jpgOriginal url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004667878/Author | Maison Bonfils (Beirut, Lebanon), photographerPermission(Reusing this file) | No known restrictions on publication in the U.S. Use elsewhere may be restricted by other countries' laws. For general information see "Copyright and Other Restrictions..." (https://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html) | This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID ppmsca.03978.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHezbollah is out of Iran's money. @haningdr @WashInstituteHanin Ghaddar is the inaugural Friedmann Visiting Fellow at The Washington Institute's Geduld Program on Arab Politics, where she focuses on Shia politics throughout the Levant. The longtime managing editor of Lebanon's NOW news website, Ghaddar shed light on a broad range of cutting-edge issues, from the evolution of Hezbollah inside Lebanon's fractured political system to Iran's growing influence throughout the Middle East. Related articles:● http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/263800-hariri-un-us-will-participate-in-negotiations-on-maritime-borders
● https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/08/20/taking-cue-from-hamas-hezbollah-brings-arson-terror-to-northern-border/
● https://www.thenational.ae/business/economy/lebanon-debt-downgrade-market-discipline-or-voluntary-reforms-1.901289
● https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/08/20/paraguay-designates-hezbollah-as-a-terrorist-organization/
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Aug 24 2019

Photo: An 1814 map of Persia at time of Qajar dynasty
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http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRouhani and Iran are desperate for talks. @TzviKahn Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presTzvi Kahn is a senior Iran analyst at FDD. He previously worked as a senior policy analyst at the Foreign Policy Initiative, where he published extensively on Iran’s nuclear program and regional ambitions. Tzvi also served as assistant director for policy and government affairs at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). From 2013 to 2014, he was an FDD national security fellow. ● https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/08/19/politics-vs-protocol/
● https://www.fdd.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/fdd-report-politics-vs-protocol-irans-nuclear-archive-and-the-iaeas-responsibilities.pdf
● https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-iran-tanker-greece/u-s-will-act-if-iranian-tanker-tries-to-deliver-oil-to-syria-pompeo-idUSKCN1VA104?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=worldNews
● https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/New-IAEA-chief-candidates-could-be-in-conflict-with-US-Israel-on-Tehran-596489
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Aug 24 2019

Photo: An early photo looking towards the Guildhall.Date | 1 December 1890, 00:00:00Source | originally posted to Flickr as Norwich, London Street, 1891Author | mira66Permission(Reusing this file) | | This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright termis the author's life plus 70 years or less.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowLong-standing Antisemitism in the UK. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_preshttps://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2019/january/report-pa-paid-terrorists-502-shekels-for-attacking-jews
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Aug 24 2019

Photo: The mausoleum of Emesa as it was photographed by Heinrich Kohl and Carl Watzinger in 1907; it may have been built in 78–79[32] by a relative of the Sampsigeramids[33]
H. Kohl and C. Watzinger - https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kunstchronik_kunstmarkt1925_1926
Das Grabmal des Samsigeramos im Jahre 1907
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@ADL Task Force on #MiddleEast Minorities.
@HarvardCMES PhD. #StefanusPrize for Religious Freedom.Dr. Aykan Erdemir, senior fellow at FDD, is a former member of the Turkish Parliament (2011 to 2015) who served in the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, EU Harmonization Committee, and the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee on the IT Sector and the Internet. He is a founding member of the International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief, and a drafter of and signatory to the Oslo Charter for Freedom of Religion or Belief (2014), as well as a signatory legislator to the London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism. · https://www.fdd.org/analysis/policy-briefs/2019/08/21/erdogan-removes-kurdish-mayors-from-office-again/
· https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/08/16/allegations-of-iranian-cash-smuggling-stir-up-turkish-parliament/
· https://themedialine.org/news/turkey-tells-syria-not-to-play-with-fire-after-deadly-air-strike/?utm_content=buffer46e76&amp;utm_medium=Twitter+(via+Buffer)&amp;utm_source=twitter.com/fdd&amp;utm_campaign=@FDD+via+Buffer+feed
· https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-21/trash-discovery-shows-turkey-eyes-putin-s-anti-sanctions-network
· https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/kurdish-mayors-removed-turkey-suleyman-soylu-ekrem-imamoglu-a9073466.html
· https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/19/turkish-convoy-hit-by-syrian-airstrikes-ankara-claims ...more

Aug 24 2019

Photo: Market Place, Bethlehem, Holy Land, (i.e., West Bank)Date | between 1890 and 1900 Dimensions | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.Accession number | LCCN2002724971Credit line | | This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID ppmsca.02662.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe "Unusual" UNWRA & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @DavidSamuelMay @FDDDavid May is a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies specializing in economic warfare. Prior to joining FDD, David was a senior research analyst at AIPAC where he focused on Israeli-Palestinian issues and the United Nations. He earned a BA in History from the University of Maryland and an MA in International Affairs with concentrations in International Economics and the Middle East from the School of International Service at American University.Relevant articles:· https://thehill.com/opinion/international/457965-un-agency-for-palestinians-is-too-corrupt-to-save
· https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Palestinians-fear-UNRWA-mandate-may-not-be-renewed-598895
· https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/No-need-for-UNRWA-599011
· https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/unrwa-corruption-scandal/
· https://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-fires-all-his-advisers-as-financial-crisis-hits/
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Aug 23 2019

Image: Homeless-Civil Rights activists Ted Hayes at sidewalk encampment in downtown Los Angeles Central City East District, dubbed Skid Row, the national capital, "ground 0" and "black hole" of homelessness. Author of photograph: Theodore Hayes; 21 March 2003I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work - under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. .https://www.sfgate.com/ontheblock/article/san-francisco-median-home-price-salary-bay-area-14301047.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Desktop)&amp;utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_medium=referralJeff Bliss, Pacific Watch: California homelessness, California social dissolution. Some businesses have given up and are leaving the state. Need to make $340K per year to be able to live in the Bay Area in any sort of comfort at all. $1.2 bil from state for homeless: will house 72 people in toto; costs are $700K per unit ­--and more Suspicions of corruption. Homeless in Seattle pitch tents next to a children’s playground – no vagrancy law is enforced. Piles of needles, dozens and dozens; and sepsis. Gov Gavin Newsom analyzed homelessness: “They mostly come from Texas!” Oops. Not accurate.
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Aug 23 2019

Image: Inuit elders eating Maktaaq, a delicacy of bowhead whale blubber. Photo: taken by Ansgar Walk.Permissions: I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license. / You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work - under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use..https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/us/politics/trump-greenland-prime-minister.htmlThe US economy. Immigration laws &amp; the Wall. Greenland: population, 57,000. A Danish colonial passion, under Queen Margretha II. And the Danish PM made rude remarks about the US president – after we’d bought the US Virgin Island from Denmark for $25 million in gold. The population is predominantly Inuit. Ethnographically, they consist of three major groups: - the Kalaallit of west Greenland, who speak Kalaallisut - the Tunumiit of Tunu (east Greenland), who speak Tunumiit oraasiat ("East Greenlandic") - the Inughuit of north Greenland, who speak Inuktun ("Polar Eskimo")
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Aug 23 2019

Photo: The Site of the First Telephone Exchange was demolished in 1973.
NPS PhotoThe first commercial telephone exchange in the world began operations on January 28, 1878 in a storefront of the Boardman Building in New Haven. George W. Coy designed and built the world's first switchboard for commercial use. Coy was inspired by Alexander Graham Bell's lecture at the Skiff Opera House in New Haven on April 27, 1877.
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Aug 23 2019

Photo: Shore of Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, Hong Kong at 1880
Licensing | This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less.
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Aug 23 2019

Photo: Image: Theodore Roosevelt, Glacier Point, Yosemite, 1903; from a stereograph, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division; ergo, pubic domain. Theodore Roosevelt, “The government is us; we are the government, you and I.” “The cornerstone of this Republic, as of all free governments, is respect for and obedience to the law. Where we permit the law to be defied or evaded, . . . we are by just so much weakening the bonds of our civilization and increasing the chances of its overthrow.” Speech at Asheville, North Carolina (9 September 1902).The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The media-Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion. Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign. Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election. Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite privately assuring Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years. Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media–Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election. They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump? https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252.Andrew C. McCarthy III (born 1959) is an American columnist for National Review. He served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. A Republican, he is most notable for leading the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman and eleven others. The defendants were convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and planning a series of attacks against New York City landmarks. He also contributed to the prosecutions of terrorists who bombed United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. He resigned from the Justice Department in 2003....more

Aug 23 2019

Image: Ellis Island, 1900. Pubic domain..NRO: The George Papadopoulos Origin Story has never added up. It has been portrayed as the Big Bang, the Magic Moment that started the FBI’s investigation of “collusion” — a suspected election-theft conspiracy between Donald Trump’s campaign and Vladimir Putin’s regime. But if the young energy-sector analyst had actually emerged in early 2016 as the key to proving Trump-Russia espionage, you would think the FBI might have gotten around to interviewing him before January 27, 2017 — i.e., a week after President Trump had been inaugurated, and six months after the Bureau formally opened its “Crossfire Hurricane” probe. You would probably also think Papadopoulos, Suspect One in The Great Cyber Espionage Attack on Our Democracy, might have rated a tad more than the whopping 14-day jail sentence a federal judge eventually imposed on him. You might even suppose that he’d have been charged with some seditious felony involving clandestine operations against his own country, instead of . . . yes . . . fibbing to the FBI about the date of a meeting. That, however, does not scratch the surface. We are to believe that what led to the opening of the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation, and what therefore is the plinth of the collusion narrative, is a breakfast meeting at a London hotel on April 26, 2016, between Papadopoulos and Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese academic we are supposed to take for a clandestine Russian agent. We are to take Papadopoulos’s word for it that Mifsud claimed Russia possessed “dirt” on Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands” of “emails of Clinton.” We are further to believe that “the professor” elaborated that, in order to help Donald Trump’s candidacy, the Kremlin would release these “emails of Clinton” at a time chosen to do maximum damage to the Democratic nominee’s campaign. The story is based on no credible evidence. If it were ever presented to a jury, it would be laughed out of court. . . . . https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/ball-of-collusion-book-excerpt-bogus-story-that-launched-collusion-probe/
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Aug 23 2019

Image: Historical US-Russian relations: U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin in Yalta, Crimea; Yalta, Soviet Union, in February 1945. Public domain..
Andrew C. McCarthy’s new book, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency, finds the white whale that eluded Special Counsel Robert Mueller for two years – evidence of a wide conspiracy to undermine American democracy. It wasn’t the Trump campaign, McCarthy reports, but agents of the federal government that intentionally perpetrated a fraud on the American people through the Russia collusion hoax in order to undermine the duly elected president of the United States. McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, draws on his own distinguished analysis of the Trump-Russia investigation for National Review and Fox News, as well as the work of journalists who tirelessly challenged the collusion narrative trumpeted by leading news outlets, to provide a smart and brisk account of the broad effort to delegitimize Trump. Ball of Collusion covers the major revelations discovered so far about how top officials in the Obama administration – including the FBI and the CIA, the departments of Justice, State and the White House itself – turned government power into a political weapon to sabotage the Trump administration. Still, many questions remain about the origins of Trump-Russia hoax – especially the role of President Obama. In this excerpt from Ball of Collusion, McCarthy details the Obama administration’s fearful yet calculated response to Trump’s surprising election. . . . https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/08/20/ball_of_collusion_excerpt_all_obamas_anti-trump_loyalists_120039.html
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Aug 23 2019

Theodore Roosevelt. “We need to make our political representatives more quickly and sensitively responsive to the people whose servants they are. … One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the people delegate their power shall serve the people by whom they are elected, and not the special interests.”Photo: Theodore Roosevelt, 1904. Public domain..GoodReads: The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The media-Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion. Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign. Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues—the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election. Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite privately assuring Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years. . . . https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40206250-ball-of-collusion
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Aug 23 2019

Photo: Dorset Street, Spitalfields, photographed in 1902 for Jack London's book The People of the Abyss
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Dorset Street, Spitalfields Dorset Street, UK, photographed in 1902 for Jack London's book The People of the Abyss. Miller's Court was reached through an alleyway on the right. Photograph first published in Jack London, The People of the Abyss, Macmillan, New York, 1903, 319 p., page 2. [1]
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http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowMifsud in London, Man of Mystery. Larry Johnson, Sic Semper Tyrannishttps://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/larry-johnson/
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Aug 23 2019

Photo: NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Mission Team is producing high resolution global maps of the Moon and is also searching for sources of water-ice that might be found in permanently shadowed polar craters. Water-ice could be important for future exploration of the Moon. USGS scientists Dr. Lisa Gaddis, Dr. Brent Archinal, and Dr. Laz Kestay are participating scientists on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team, and Dr. Larry Soderblom is a member of the DIVINER Lunar Radiometer Experiment team. Dr. Randolph Kirk is involved with the Mini-RF instrument, which is able to "see" into the permanently shadowed craters on the Moon and enables production of RADAR maps with a resolution of up to 7.5 meters/pixel. Several Astrogeology Science Center programming staff support the LRO data processing pipeline.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHotel Mars: Tardigrades on the Moon &amp; What is to be done? David Livingston, SpaceShow.com. Laura Montgomery, Ground Based Space Matters, LLC. https://in.mashable.com/science/5945/how-did-the-tardigrades-survive-the-crash-landing-of-beresheet-spacecraft
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Aug 23 2019

Photo: Image taken from page 80 of 'Songs and etchings in shade and sunshine. By J. E. G. [i.e. J. E. Gordon.]'Image taken from:
Title: "Songs and etchings in shade and sunshine. By J. E. G. [i.e. J. E. Gordon.]"
Author: GORDON, Julia Emily.
Contributor: G., J. E.
Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 11652.k.4."
Page: 80
Place of Publishing: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
Date of Publishing: 1880
Publisher: London
Issuance: monographic
Identifier: 001466991 Explore:Find this item in the British Library catalogue, 'Explore'.
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Aug 22 2019

Image Universitas Cantabrigiensis: The shield variant for University of Cambridge. Public domain. Robert Cooke - http://www.cam.ac.uk/brand-resources/about-the-logo
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Stalin's Englishman: Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring by Andrew Lownie and Steven Crossley https://www.amazon.com/Stalins-Englishman-Lives-Guy-Burgess/dp/1473627362
Winner of the St Ermin's Intelligence Book of the Year Award. A Guardian Book of the Year. The Times Best Biography of the Year. Mail on Sunday Biography of the Year. Daily Mail Biography of Year. Spectator Book of the Year. BBC History Book of the Year. 'Andrew Lownie's biography of Guy Burgess, Stalin's Englishman ... shrewd, thorough, revelatory.' William Boyd 'In the sad and funny Stalin's Englishman, [Lownie] manages to convey the charm as well as the turpitude.' Craig Brown Guy Burgess was the most important, complex and fascinating of 'The Cambridge Spies' - Maclean, Philby, Blunt - all brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers. In this first full biography, Andrew Lownie shows us how even Burgess's chaotic personal life of drunken philandering did nothing to stop his penetration and betrayal of the British Intelligence Service. Even when he was under suspicion, the fabled charm which had enabled many close personal relationships with influential Establishment figures (including Winston Churchill) prevented his exposure as a spy for many years. Through interviews with more than a hundred people who knew Burgess personally, many of whom have never spoken about him before, and the discovery of hitherto secret files, Stalin's Englishman brilliantly unravels the many lives of Guy Burgess in all their intriguing, chilling, colourful, tragi-comic wonder.
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Aug 22 2019

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Stalin's Englishman: Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring by Andrew Lownie and Steven Crossley Guy Burgess was the most important, complex, and fascinating of "The Cambridge Spies"-Maclean, Philby, Blunt-brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers. In this first full biography, Andrew Lownie shows us how even Burgess's chaotic personal life did nothing to stop his penetration and betrayal of the British Intelligence Service. Even when he was under suspicion, the fabled charm which had enabled many close personal relationships with influential Establishment figures (including Winston Churchill) prevented his exposure as a spy for many years. Through interviews with more than a hundred people who knew Burgess personally, many of whom have never spoken about him before, and the discovery of hitherto secret files, Stalin's Englishman brilliantly unravels the many lives of Guy Burgess in all their intriguing, chilling, colorful, tragi-comic wonder.
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Aug 22 2019

Image Universitas Cantabrigiensis: University officials leading the Vice-Chancellor's deputy into the Senate House. The University Officers in charge of a degree ceremony at the University of Cambridge..
Stalin's Englishman: Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring by Andrew Lownie and Steven Crossley https://www.amazon.com/Stalins-Englishman-Lives-Guy-Burgess/dp/1473627362
Winner of the St Ermin's Intelligence Book of the Year Award. A Guardian Book of the Year. The Times Best Biography of the Year. Mail on Sunday Biography of the Year. Daily Mail Biography of Year. Spectator Book of the Year. BBC History Book of the Year. 'Andrew Lownie's biography of Guy Burgess, Stalin's Englishman ... shrewd, thorough, revelatory.' William Boyd 'In the sad and funny Stalin's Englishman, [Lownie] manages to convey the charm as well as the turpitude.' Craig Brown Guy Burgess was the most important, complex and fascinating of 'The Cambridge Spies' - Maclean, Philby, Blunt - all brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers. In this first full biography, Andrew Lownie shows us how even Burgess's chaotic personal life of drunken philandering did nothing to stop his penetration and betrayal of the British Intelligence Service. Even when he was under suspicion, the fabled charm which had enabled many close personal relationships with influential Establishment figures (including Winston Churchill) prevented his exposure as a spy for many years. Through interviews with more than a hundred people who knew Burgess personally, many of whom have never spoken about him before, and the discovery of hitherto secret files, Stalin's Englishman brilliantly unravels the many lives of Guy Burgess in all their intriguing, chilling, colourful, tragi-comic wonder.
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Aug 22 2019

Image Universitas Cantabrigiensis: Girton College. Library of Congress; public domain..
Stalin's Englishman: Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring by Andrew Lownie and Steven Crossley Guy Burgess was the most important, complex, and fascinating of "The Cambridge Spies"-Maclean, Philby, Blunt-brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers. In this first full biography, Andrew Lownie shows us how even Burgess's chaotic personal life did nothing to stop his penetration and betrayal of the British Intelligence Service. Even when he was under suspicion, the fabled charm which had enabled many close personal relationships with influential Establishment figures (including Winston Churchill) prevented his exposure as a spy for many years. Through interviews with more than a hundred people who knew Burgess personally, many of whom have never spoken about him before, and the discovery of hitherto secret files, Stalin's Englishman brilliantly unravels the many lives of Guy Burgess in all their intriguing, chilling, colorful, tragi-comic wonder.
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Aug 22 2019

Photo: Peng Ming-min (center) with colleagues at National Taiwan University in 1954. Public domain. Peng Ming-min (彭明敏) is a noted democracy activist, advocate of Taiwan independence, and politician. Arrested for sedition in 1964 for printing a manifesto advocating democracy in his native Taiwan, he escaped to Sweden, before taking a post as a university teacher in the United States. After 22 years in exile he returned to become the Democratic Progressive Party's first presidential candidate in Taiwan's first direct presidential election in 1996. Permissions: According to the Copyright Act of the Republic of China (Taiwan), Economic rights for photographic works, audiovisual works, sound recordings, and performances endure for fifty years after the public release of the work (Article 34). 依中華民國《著作權法》第 34 條: 攝影、視聽、錄音及表演之著作財產權存續至著作公開發表後五十年。.
China Threatens Sanctions over Planned U.S. Sale of Jet Fighters to Taiwan Beijing’s countermeasure against potential deal for F-16V fighters isn’t expected to significantly affect the manufacturer, Lockheed Martin
China said it would sanction any U.S. firm involved in a planned $8 billion sale of advanced jet fighters to Taiwan, in retaliation against what it describes as Washington’s attempt to undermine Chinese national security. Beijing’s countermeasure against the proposed sale of 66 F-16V fighters isn’t expected to have much impact on . . . https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-threatens-sanctions-over-planned-u-s-sale-of-fighter-jets-to-taiwan-11566393409
Taiwan: “Red Media” (press that’s been commandeered by the CCP).
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Aug 22 2019

Photo: In Korea, Seodaemun / Donuimun in the Joseon Period.Source: Japanese book, History of Japan-Korea Annexation about which Image talks, published by Roudoukeizai Sha 日本語: 労働経済社「映像が語る日韓併合史」より。 Published: 1900s This photograph is in the public domain in Japan because its copyright has expired according to Article 23 of the 1899 Copyright Actof Japan (English translation) and Article 2 of Supplemental Provisions of Copyright Act of 1970. This is when the photograph meets one of the following conditions: 1. It was published before January .1, 1957. 2. It was photographed before January 1, 1947. It is also in the public domain in the United States because its copyright in Japan expired by 1970 and was not restored by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act..Large Scale Rallies Calling to Impeach Moon Jae-in on the Liberation Day in South Koreahttps://eastasiaresearch.org/2019/08/16/large-scale-rallies-calling-to-impeach-moon-jae-in-on-the-liberation-day-in-south-korea/
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Aug 22 2019

Photo: Jules Verne: Die Reise nach dem Mond, EinbanddeckelDate | Original um 1900, Foto von 2018Source | Gerd Küveler private collection / PrivatsammlungAuthor | unknownGerd Küveler (reproduction)This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe immediate need for the US Space Force: 1 of 2: Lieutenant General Steven Kwast, USAF.
https://warontherocks.com/2019/08/the-real-stakes-in-the-new-space-race/What should be done? I humbly offer four recommendations: First, the Congress should write language into the National Defense Authorization Act that charges the Space Force to defend all American interests to include commerce in space. Second, the same law should provide complete independence from the Air Force to ensure space has the attention and focus required. Third, President Donald Trump should issue an executive order protecting America’s space industry from China’s predatory practices. Fourth and finally, the president should empower the Space Development Agency and direct it to follow the Fast Space Report blueprint to partner with private industry to rapidly develop new space capabilities. It is time for the United States to act with bold and visionary leadership. Half measures and incrementalism will leave the next generation in a world dominated by those who value neither American ideals nor its way of life....more

Aug 22 2019

Photo: An illustration from the novel "From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne drawn by Henri de Montaut.Polski: Ilustracja powieści Juliusza Verne'a "Z Ziemi na Księżyc" autorstwa Henri de Montauta.Français : "De la Terre à la Lune", Henri de Montaut.Diese Datei wurde mit Commonist hochgeladen.Français : L’arrivée du projectile à Stone’s-HillDatum31. Juli 1868Der Urheber dieses Werks ist 1900 gestorben; es ist daher gemeinfrei,http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe immediate need for the US Space Force: 2 of 2: Lieutenant General Steven Kwast, USAF.
https://warontherocks.com/2019/08/the-real-stakes-in-the-new-space-race/What should be done? I humbly offer four recommendations: First, the Congress should write language into the National Defense Authorization Act that charges the Space Force to defend all American interests to include commerce in space. Second, the same law should provide complete independence from the Air Force to ensure space has the attention and focus required. Third, President Donald Trump should issue an executive order protecting America’s space industry from China’s predatory practices. Fourth and finally, the president should empower the Space Development Agency and direct it to follow the Fast Space Report blueprint to partner with private industry to rapidly develop new space capabilities. It is time for the United States to act with bold and visionary leadership. Half measures and incrementalism will leave the next generation in a world dominated by those who value neither American ideals nor its way of life....more

Aug 21 2019

Image: The first image taken of the far side of the Moon, returned by Luna 3: the first of the far side of the Moon, taken by Luna 3, October 7, 1959. The dark patches at left include Mare Crisium (on the near side), Mare Smythii, and Mare Marginis (on the border of the near and far sides). At bottom is Mare Ausatrale. The dark patch above right of center is Mare Moscoviense, and below right of center is Tsiolkovskiy crater. Below and to the right of Tsiolkovskiy is Jules Verne crater. Public domain..https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/marshall-wins-artemis-manned-moon-lander-pork/. . . The Marshall Space Flight Center will supervise construction of the transfer vehicle and the descent module, while the Johnson Space Center in Texas will manage construction of the upper ascent stage. Does no one in NASA or the Trump administration see the stupidity of this? It’s as if Ford decided that the interior and exterior sections of its cars will be assembled in two different factories, and combined only after they are assembled. The logistics of making sure they’ll fit and work together during final assembly could only increase costs, delay assembly, and almost guarantee engineering issues. No intelligently run business would do such a thing. Government, however, is not an intelligently run business. It’s run by politicians, whom we the public have not held to any kind of quality standard for the past half century. Thus, NASA is . . .
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Aug 21 2019

Image: Rendering of Chandrayaan-2 lander(top) interfaced with orbiter (bottom)Source:https://www.isro.gov.in/update/01-may-2019/press-release-chandrayaan-2https://www.isro.gov.in/sites/default/files/chandrayaan_2.jpg Author: Indian Space Research Organisation Permissions: see below.*.The Chandrayaan program, the Indian Lunar Exploration Programme, incorporates a lunar orbiter, impactor, and future lunar lander and rover spacecraft. The name of the program is from Sanskrit चन्द्रयान candrayāna, lit. “moon craft.” Chandrayan2 was launched on 22 July 2019 aboard a GSLV Mk III rocket... .. .. * Permissions: This file is a copyrighted work of the Government of India, licensed under the Government Open Data License - India (GODL). Following the mandate of the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP) of Government of India that applies to all shareable non-sensitive data available either in digital or analog forms but generated using public funds by various agencies of the Government of India, all users are provided a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, adapt, publish (either in original, or in adapted and/or derivative forms), translate, display, add value, and create derivative works (including products and services), for all lawful commercial and non-commercial purposes, and for the duration of existence of such rights over the data or information. The user must acknowledge the provider, source, and license of data by explicitly publishing the attribution statement, including the DOI (Digital Object Identifier), or the URL (Uniform Resource Locator), or the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) of the data concerned. The user must not indicate or suggest in any manner that the data provider(s) endorses their use and/or the user.
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Aug 21 2019

Image: Babur crossing the Indus River in the heat of battle, a painting commissioned by Akbar, c.1589; from the collection of the Aga Khan Museum. Source: http://www.akdn.org/museum/detail.asp?artifactid=1677 (downloaded Apr. 2011) .Gregory R Copley, editor & publisher, Defense & Foreign Affairs, in re: The Kashmir problem erupted again with artillery fire by India and Delhi’s assertion that it will “resolve the Kashmir problem.” Pakistan and India are both nuclear. Modi, being an extreme Hindu nationalist, will [crush] the Muslim population in Kashmir, is moving Hindus in. Northern part, Ladakh, holds a Buddhist majority. Kashmir is the source of much water for the Indus River, a sort of spine of Pakistan. Also threatening the land bridge between Pakistan and China (although, were it to do that, China would intervene). Pakistan not eager for war, knowing, it couldn't win. Currently: videos of rampant Indian police brutality against Kashmiri Muslims. .ttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-kashmir/kashmir-remains-tense-despite-partial-easing-of-restrictions-idUSKCN1VA0FZSRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - India further eased movement restrictions in Kashmir’s main city Srinagar on Tuesday, even as large swathes of the historically-restive old quarter remained locked down to curb protests over New Delhi’s move to strip the region of its autonomy.
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Aug 21 2019

Image: A 10% Legacy and Succession Duty impressed duty stamp of the United Kingdom. Public domain... https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/us/politics/trump-economy-recession-data.htmlThe Democrats rooting for a Recession to bolster 2020:
Trump Says He’s Exploring ‘Various Tax Reductions,’ and the Economic Data He Loves Shows Why Some of the administration’s favorite data points are now flashing warning signs about investment, jobs and growth.

Aug 21 2019

Photo: Official portrait of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). Public domain.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-st-paul-minnesota-town-hall_n_5d5b1c9fe4b0f667ed6750caST. PAUL, Minn. ― Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) on Monday drew what her campaign said was the largest crowd of her presidential campaign tour yet, attracting thousands of energized supporters to her town hall at Macalester College. “Hello, Minnesota!” the 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful shouted as she took the stage Monday evening. “Dang, it’s good to be here.”
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Aug 21 2019

Photo: Car and homemade trailer on U.S. 101 near King City, California. Man and wife middle-aged, from Wisconsin. "Old Man Depression sent us out on the road ... You don't know anything about how many people are living in trailers till you 'hit' Florida.New York Public LibrarylinkLinkhttp://digitalcollections.nypl.org/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain
http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCalifornia Motor Voter folly and Ballot-Harvesting tomfoolery. @HooverWhalen @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/research/californias-motor-voter-system-unsafe-any-speed
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Aug 21 2019

Photo: http://JohnBa: Title: To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Small oasis in Wady Hebran.Abstract/medium: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph CollectionPhysical description: 1 negative :Date | 1900Source | Library of CongressCatalog: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/matpc/item/mpc2004004308/PPOriginal url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/matpc.01990Author | Matson CollectionPermission(Reusing this file) | No known restrictions on publication. | This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID matpc.01990.tchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe US is an oasis in a sea of European fumbles and Asian fears. @McTagueJim, "The Martin Boundary Series."...more

Aug 21 2019

Photo: PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec. 10, 2010) U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) ships underway in formation as part of a photo exercise on the final day of Keen Sword 2011. The exercise enhances the Japan-U.S. alliance which remains a key strategic relationship in the Northeast Asia Pacific region. Keen Sword caps the 50th anniversary of the Japan-U.S. alliance as an "alliance of equals." (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jacob D. Moore/Released)Date | 10 December 2010Source | | This Image was released by the United States Navy with the ID 101210-N-7191M-031http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe close working alliance of the US Navy and the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force. @USNavyUnderSec Thomas B. Modly....more

Aug 21 2019

Photo: The gun fighter loungedagainst the adobe bricks of the bunkhouse, sweeping Sixteen with cold, emo-tionless glances while the latter talked ofhis travels. The other men were drapedabout, each according to his notion ofcomfort. You say youve been from the Mizpah THE SIXTEENTH MAN 56. in Montana, clear down to the Pecosdistrict in Texas? queried the gunfighter, making little effort to concealhis incredulity. Why, shore. I just told you aboutit. Then I reckon you must have seen aheap of the country, persisted the gunfighter. Well, yes, returned Sixteen, Ireckon Ive done seen my share of it. glumly silent, their muscles tense. Af-fronts of this character had been knownto result in gun play. But Sixteen calmly continued whit-tling his branch of chaparral, not eventaking the trouble to look toward thegun fighter. The men of the outfit al-lowed their muscles to relax, but allsensed the unusual. When I was down in the Pecos dis-trict, Texas, ridin for a man namedhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTaken circa 1885 No known copyright restrictions
All the logical ways to prevent mass-shootings are already in place: 1 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/research/israeli-lessons-mass-shootings
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Aug 21 2019

Photo: Patent drawing of the "Henry Rifle", the predecessor of the Winchester rifleDate | 1860Source | [1]Author | en:Benjamin Tyler Henry (1821-1891) | This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less.
http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAll the logical ways to prevent mass-shootings are already in place: 2 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/research/israeli-lessons-mass-shootings
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Aug 21 2019

Photo:"Scene in Jackson Square, New Orleans, Louisiana" 1935. Photo of a middle aged man and woman seated on a park bench.Date | October 1935Source | FSA photo by Ben Shahn, digital copy at Library of Congress website, cropped and converted from TIFF to .jpg before uploading to Wikimedia Commons.Author | Ben ShahnPermission(Reusing this file) | | This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a workof the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Democrats are rooting for a Recession &amp; What is to be done? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter...more

Aug 20 2019

Photo: 港1910年代時的皇后像廣場（經查證後，不可能於1910年代，估計為1920年代）After 1923 (year of construction of The Cenotaph)The Peninsula Hotel, opened in December 1928, is visible in the background.Date | 11 December 2005 (original upload date)Source | Transferred from zh.wikipedia to Commons.Author | The original uploader was Kevinhksouth at Chinese Wikipedia.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHong Kong protesters wave Old Glory. @Crosett https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests/hong-kong-leader-says-she-hopes-peaceful-protest-was-a-turning-point-idUSKCN1VA05Y?il=0
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday she hoped a peaceful weekend anti-government protest was the start of an effort to restore peace and that the government would talk to peaceful protesters and tackle complaints against police....more

Aug 20 2019

Image: Chinese technology has often been a jump ahead of everyone else’s. Here, a trebuchet catapult. As for Huawei, it’s inextricably commingled with the Chinese military. Illustration of a Hinged Counterweight Trebuchet Prepped for Transit from the Wujing Zongyao, late Ming (Wanli Period) edition. The photographs are part of my book. You're welcome to use them on Wikipedia so long as you list my book, Chinese Siege Warfare: Mechanical Artillery & Siege Weapons of Antiquity, by Liang Jieming (ISBN 981-05-5380-3) as the source. Cheers, Leong Kit Meng (Liang Jieming) &lt;liang_jieming@history-forum.com&gt;.https://bgr.com/2019/08/19/huawei-ban-reprieve-extension-to-benefit-mate-30-pro-mate-x-launches/August 19th marks the end of the temporary reprieve the US government gave Huawei after banning its access to American products, including hardware components as well as software licenses it needs to manufacture and sell all sorts of devices. But that doesn’t mean Huawei will no longer be able to conduct business with US-based partners, as the Commerce Department was expected on Monday to extend the reprieve by several months. The extension was just announced, which means Huawei has ample time to launch two of its most important products of the year, including the Mate 30 Pro and Mate X foldable..Bloomberg: Several Huawei Technologies Co. employees have collaborated on research projects with Chinese armed forces personnel, indicating closer ties to the country’s military than previously acknowledged by the smartphone and networking powerhouse. . . . https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-27/huawei-personnel-worked-with-china-military-on-research-projects
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Aug 20 2019

Image: Taliban religious police beating a woman in Kabul on 26 August 2001. From the distinguished RAWA: This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. Wikimedia has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an OTRS member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2009020710021864.
“To PHR's knowledge, no other regime in the world has methodically and violently forced half of its population into virtual house arrest, prohibiting them on pain of physical punishment.”— Physicians for Human Rights, 1998 . https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/08/as-us-presses-negotiations-taliban-promotes-training-of-fighters-and-attacks.php
Bill Roggio: The Taliban practice for peace: a video, “Caravan of Khaibar” at Voice of Jihad, shows fighters moving in a convoy. Notice the new Toyota Hi-Luxs, vehicles adorned with large white Taliban flags, operating in the open without fear of being targeted.
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Aug 20 2019

Photo: Israeli West Bank barrier – North of Meitar, near the southwest corner of the West Bank, in 2006.No machine-readable author provided. Eman assumed (based on copyright claims). - No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims).
Israeli West Bank Barrier - North of Meitar, near the south west corner of the West Bank photographed by Eman May 2006 (UTC), May 2006
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http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPelosi and Hoyer fail to confront the anti-semitic speech of Omar and Tlaib. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotterhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/rashida-tlaib-ilhan-denounce-israel-travel-restrictions-in-press-conference-2019-08-19/
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Aug 20 2019

Image: Janissaries – formed to crush Turkish rebel groups. Work of Richard Knötel in the1890s. Public Domain The Janissaries (meaning "new soldier") were elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops, bodyguards and the first modern standing army in Europe, likely established during the reign of Murad I (1362–89). They began as an elite corps of slaves made up of kidnapped young Christian boys who were converted to Islam, and became famed for internal cohesion cemented by strict discipline and order. Unlike typical slaves, they were paid regular salaries...https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/08/wanted-al-qaeda-leader-warns-of-turkish-influence-on-jihad-in-syria.phpYesterday, a jihadist Telegram channel published a short statement attributed to Saif al-Adel, a wanted terrorist who has worked for al Qaeda since the 1990s. The message addresses the jihadist scene in Syria, specifically dealing with the controversies surrounding relations with Turkey and Turkish-backed rebel groups.
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Aug 20 2019

Photo: Français : Couronnement de Baudouin IIIDate | 13th century Source | http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/ConsulterElementNum?O=IFN-07882245&E=JPEG&Deb=1&Fin=1&Param=CAuthor | UnknownPermission(Reusing this file) | | This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright termis the author's life plus 70 years or less.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Winery of King Baldwin of the Holy Land. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotterhttps://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/08/crusader-winery-in-israel-largest-ever-discovered/
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Aug 20 2019

Photo: La Guardia between two Italian officers in front of a Ca.44, c. 1918Unknown - USAF Museum [1]
Fiorello Herny LaGuardia during the first world war. He's between two italian officers, in front of a Caproni Ca.44 (Ca.5) bomber
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City of Ambition: 1 of 4: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Mason B. Williams (Author), Ira Rosenberg (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)
https://www.amazon.com/City-Ambition-Guardia-Making-Modern-dp-B00FQVYD10/dp/B00FQVYD10/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&amp;me=&amp;qid=Two political titans forge a modern city and a vibrant public sector in this history of strong leadership at a time of national crisis. City of Ambition is a brilliant history of the New Deal and its role in the making of modern New York City. The story of a remarkable collaboration between Franklin Roosevelt and Fiorello La Guardia, this is a case study in creative political leadership in the midst of a devastating depression. Roosevelt and La Guardia were an odd couple: patrician president and immigrant mayor, fireside chat and tabloid cartoon, pragmatic Democrat and reform Republican. But together, as leaders of America's two largest governments in the depths of the Great Depression, they fashioned a route to recovery for the nation and the master plan for a great city. Roosevelt and his "Brain Trust" - shrewd, energetic advisors such as Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins - sought to fight the Depression by channeling federal resources through America's cities and counties. La Guardia had replaced Tammany Hall cronies with policy experts, such as the imperious Robert Moses, who were committed to a strong public sector. The two leaders worked closely together. La Guardia had a direct line of communication with FDR and his staff, often visiting Washington carrying piles of blueprints. Roosevelt relied on the mayor as his link to the nation's cities and their needs. The combination was potent. La Guardia's Gotham became a laboratory for New Deal reform. Roosevelt's New Deal transformed city initiatives into major programs such as the Works Progress Administration, which changed the physical face of the United States. Together they built parks, bridges, and schools; put the unemployed to work; and strengthened the Progressive vision of government as serving the public purpose. Today everyone knows the FDR Drive as a main route to La Guardia Airport. The intersection of steel and concrete speaks to a pair of dynamic leaders whose collaboration lifted a city and a nation. Here is their story....more

Aug 20 2019

Photo: La Guardia and Franklin D. Roosevelt
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City of Ambition: 2 of 4: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Mason B. Williams (Author), Ira Rosenberg (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)
https://www.amazon.com/City-Ambition-Guardia-Making-Modern-dp-B00FQVYD10/dp/B00FQVYD10/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&amp;me=&amp;qid=Two political titans forge a modern city and a vibrant public sector in this history of strong leadership at a time of national crisis. City of Ambition is a brilliant history of the New Deal and its role in the making of modern New York City. The story of a remarkable collaboration between Franklin Roosevelt and Fiorello La Guardia, this is a case study in creative political leadership in the midst of a devastating depression. Roosevelt and La Guardia were an odd couple: patrician president and immigrant mayor, fireside chat and tabloid cartoon, pragmatic Democrat and reform Republican. But together, as leaders of America's two largest governments in the depths of the Great Depression, they fashioned a route to recovery for the nation and the master plan for a great city. Roosevelt and his "Brain Trust" - shrewd, energetic advisors such as Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins - sought to fight the Depression by channeling federal resources through America's cities and counties. La Guardia had replaced Tammany Hall cronies with policy experts, such as the imperious Robert Moses, who were committed to a strong public sector. The two leaders worked closely together. La Guardia had a direct line of communication with FDR and his staff, often visiting Washington carrying piles of blueprints. Roosevelt relied on the mayor as his link to the nation's cities and their needs. The combination was potent. La Guardia's Gotham became a laboratory for New Deal reform. Roosevelt's New Deal transformed city initiatives into major programs such as the Works Progress Administration, which changed the physical face of the United States. Together they built parks, bridges, and schools; put the unemployed to work; and strengthened the Progressive vision of government as serving the public purpose. Today everyone knows the FDR Drive as a main route to La Guardia Airport. The intersection of steel and concrete speaks to a pair of dynamic leaders whose collaboration lifted a city and a nation. Here is their story....more

Aug 20 2019

Photo: English: New York city views. Plaza buildings, reflected in open lake. Safety negative. 5 x 7 inches.Date | 12 February 1933Source | | This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID gsc.5a18137.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow
City of Ambition: 3 of 4: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Mason B. Williams (Author), Ira Rosenberg (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)
https://www.amazon.com/City-Ambition-Guardia-Making-Modern-dp-B00FQVYD10/dp/B00FQVYD10/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&amp;me=&amp;qid=Two political titans forge a modern city and a vibrant public sector in this history of strong leadership at a time of national crisis. City of Ambition is a brilliant history of the New Deal and its role in the making of modern New York City. The story of a remarkable collaboration between Franklin Roosevelt and Fiorello La Guardia, this is a case study in creative political leadership in the midst of a devastating depression. Roosevelt and La Guardia were an odd couple: patrician president and immigrant mayor, fireside chat and tabloid cartoon, pragmatic Democrat and reform Republican. But together, as leaders of America's two largest governments in the depths of the Great Depression, they fashioned a route to recovery for the nation and the master plan for a great city. Roosevelt and his "Brain Trust" - shrewd, energetic advisors such as Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins - sought to fight the Depression by channeling federal resources through America's cities and counties. La Guardia had replaced Tammany Hall cronies with policy experts, such as the imperious Robert Moses, who were committed to a strong public sector. The two leaders worked closely together. La Guardia had a direct line of communication with FDR and his staff, often visiting Washington carrying piles of blueprints. Roosevelt relied on the mayor as his link to the nation's cities and their needs. The combination was potent. La Guardia's Gotham became a laboratory for New Deal reform. Roosevelt's New Deal transformed city initiatives into major programs such as the Works Progress Administration, which changed the physical face of the United States. Together they built parks, bridges, and schools; put the unemployed to work; and strengthened the Progressive vision of government as serving the public purpose. Today everyone knows the FDR Drive as a main route to La Guardia Airport. The intersection of steel and concrete speaks to a pair of dynamic leaders whose collaboration lifted a city and a nation. Here is their story....more

Aug 20 2019

Photo: English: The Royal Australian Navy heavy cruiser HMAS Australia (D84) underway in Hudson River off New York City (USA)- heading north upstream, circa 1932-1933. The west shoreline of Manhattan looking towards the top of the Woolworth Building is visible in the distance. The squat, square structure just off-shore (near Canal Street in Lower Manhattan) is a ventilation structure for the trans-Hudson tunnel linking New York City and New Jersey.Date | between 1932 and 1933 Source | Official U.S. Navy photo NH 50120 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage CommandAuthor | U.S. Navy photograph | This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States.
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City of Ambition: 4 of 4: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Mason B. Williams (Author), Ira Rosenberg (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)
https://www.amazon.com/City-Ambition-Guardia-Making-Modern-dp-B00FQVYD10/dp/B00FQVYD10/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&amp;me=&amp;qid=Two political titans forge a modern city and a vibrant public sector in this history of strong leadership at a time of national crisis. City of Ambition is a brilliant history of the New Deal and its role in the making of modern New York City. The story of a remarkable collaboration between Franklin Roosevelt and Fiorello La Guardia, this is a case study in creative political leadership in the midst of a devastating depression. Roosevelt and La Guardia were an odd couple: patrician president and immigrant mayor, fireside chat and tabloid cartoon, pragmatic Democrat and reform Republican. But together, as leaders of America's two largest governments in the depths of the Great Depression, they fashioned a route to recovery for the nation and the master plan for a great city. Roosevelt and his "Brain Trust" - shrewd, energetic advisors such as Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins - sought to fight the Depression by channeling federal resources through America's cities and counties. La Guardia had replaced Tammany Hall cronies with policy experts, such as the imperious Robert Moses, who were committed to a strong public sector. The two leaders worked closely together. La Guardia had a direct line of communication with FDR and his staff, often visiting Washington carrying piles of blueprints. Roosevelt relied on the mayor as his link to the nation's cities and their needs. The combination was potent. La Guardia's Gotham became a laboratory for New Deal reform. Roosevelt's New Deal transformed city initiatives into major programs such as the Works Progress Administration, which changed the physical face of the United States. Together they built parks, bridges, and schools; put the unemployed to work; and strengthened the Progressive vision of government as serving the public purpose. Today everyone knows the FDR Drive as a main route to La Guardia Airport. The intersection of steel and concrete speaks to a pair of dynamic leaders whose collaboration lifted a city and a nation. Here is their story....more

Aug 19 2019

Photo: Naval battle of Dan-no-ura in 1185伝土佐光信 - 『安徳天皇縁起絵図』 第七巻「壇の浦合戦」、第八巻「安徳天皇御入水」
安徳天皇生誕から、壇ノ浦入水に至る一代を画いたもの。上部の色紙形の書は伝青蓮院宮筆。もとは阿弥陀寺（赤間神宮）内の安徳天皇御霊堂の障子絵であったものが、明治になって軸装に改められた。
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Operation Storm: 1 of 4: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II Paperback – March 18, 2014. by John Geoghegan (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Storm-Japans-Secret-Submarines/dp/0770435734
In 1941, the architects of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor planned a bold follow-up: a potentially devastating air raid—this time against New York City and Washington, DC. The classified Japanese program required developing a squadron of top secret submarines—the Sen-toku or I-400 class—designed as underwater aircraft carriers, each equipped with three Aichi M6A1 attack bombers painted to look like U.S. aircraft. The bombers, called Seiran (which translates as “storm from a clear sky”), were tucked in a huge, water-tight hanger on the sub’s deck. The subs' mission was to travel more than halfway around the world, surface on the U.S. coast, and launch their deadly air attack. This entire operation was unknown to U.S. intelligence. And the amazing thing is how close the Japanese came to pulling it off.John Geoghegan’s meticulous research, including first-person accounts from the I-401 crew and the U.S. capturing party, creates a fascinating portrait of the Sen-toku's desperate push into Allied waters and the U.S. Navy's dramatic pursuit, masterfully illuminating a previously forgotten story of the Pacific war....more

Aug 19 2019

Photo: A Japanese Red seal ship, combining eastern and western naval technologiesUnknown, compiled by Kondo Seisai (1771 - 1829), archived at National Archives of Japan - http://jpimg.digital.archives.go.jp/kouseisai/category/document/gaiban_shokan_e.html
A drawing of a trade ship heading from Nagasaki to Vietnam, from the Gaiban Shokan. This book was prepared as a reference work for "Gaiban Tsusho," the compilation of diplomatic documents of the Tokugawa shogunate, prepared by Kondo Seisai (1771 - 1829), who served as the magistrate of Nagasaki and the magistrate of books and records. It contains copies of diplomatic papers, including 33 certificates impressed with the shogun's vermillion seal for officially authorized trips to Annam (Vietnam), the Netherlands, and Luzon (in the Philippines). It was completed in the first year of Bunsei (1818), and the two sets of two-volume were presented to the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1819. One copy was kept at the Momijiyama Library, and the other, at the Shoheizaka-Gakumonjo run by the shogunate.
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Operation Storm: 2 of 4: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II Paperback – March 18, 2014. by John Geoghegan (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Storm-Japans-Secret-Submarines/dp/0770435734
In 1941, the architects of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor planned a bold follow-up: a potentially devastating air raid—this time against New York City and Washington, DC. The classified Japanese program required developing a squadron of top secret submarines—the Sen-toku or I-400 class—designed as underwater aircraft carriers, each equipped with three Aichi M6A1 attack bombers painted to look like U.S. aircraft. The bombers, called Seiran (which translates as “storm from a clear sky”), were tucked in a huge, water-tight hanger on the sub’s deck. The subs' mission was to travel more than halfway around the world, surface on the U.S. coast, and launch their deadly air attack. This entire operation was unknown to U.S. intelligence. And the amazing thing is how close the Japanese came to pulling it off.John Geoghegan’s meticulous research, including first-person accounts from the I-401 crew and the U.S. capturing party, creates a fascinating portrait of the Sen-toku's desperate push into Allied waters and the U.S. Navy's dramatic pursuit, masterfully illuminating a previously forgotten story of the Pacific war....more

Aug 19 2019

Photo: Shōhei Maru (1854) was built from Dutch technical drawings.View author information
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Operation Storm: 3 of 4: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II Paperback – March 18, 2014. by John Geoghegan (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Storm-Japans-Secret-Submarines/dp/0770435734
In 1941, the architects of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor planned a bold follow-up: a potentially devastating air raid—this time against New York City and Washington, DC. The classified Japanese program required developing a squadron of top secret submarines—the Sen-toku or I-400 class—designed as underwater aircraft carriers, each equipped with three Aichi M6A1 attack bombers painted to look like U.S. aircraft. The bombers, called Seiran (which translates as “storm from a clear sky”), were tucked in a huge, water-tight hanger on the sub’s deck. The subs' mission was to travel more than halfway around the world, surface on the U.S. coast, and launch their deadly air attack. This entire operation was unknown to U.S. intelligence. And the amazing thing is how close the Japanese came to pulling it off.John Geoghegan’s meticulous research, including first-person accounts from the I-401 crew and the U.S. capturing party, creates a fascinating portrait of the Sen-toku's desperate push into Allied waters and the U.S. Navy's dramatic pursuit, masterfully illuminating a previously forgotten story of the Pacific war....more

Aug 19 2019

Photo: Mikasa, among the most powerful battleships of her time, in 1905, was one of the six battleships ordered as part of the program.Unknown - 呉市海事歴史科学館所蔵品 (Sakai City Maritime History Science Museum Collection)
日本海軍戦艦敷島型「三笠 呉にて撮影されたもの。(Japanese battleship Mikasa in Kure)
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Created: 1905年(明治38年)2月初旬。(February 1905)
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Operation Storm: 4 of 4: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II Paperback – March 18, 2014. by John Geoghegan (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Storm-Japans-Secret-Submarines/dp/0770435734
In 1941, the architects of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor planned a bold follow-up: a potentially devastating air raid—this time against New York City and Washington, DC. The classified Japanese program required developing a squadron of top secret submarines—the Sen-toku or I-400 class—designed as underwater aircraft carriers, each equipped with three Aichi M6A1 attack bombers painted to look like U.S. aircraft. The bombers, called Seiran (which translates as “storm from a clear sky”), were tucked in a huge, water-tight hanger on the sub’s deck. The subs' mission was to travel more than halfway around the world, surface on the U.S. coast, and launch their deadly air attack. This entire operation was unknown to U.S. intelligence. And the amazing thing is how close the Japanese came to pulling it off.John Geoghegan’s meticulous research, including first-person accounts from the I-401 crew and the U.S. capturing party, creates a fascinating portrait of the Sen-toku's desperate push into Allied waters and the U.S. Navy's dramatic pursuit, masterfully illuminating a previously forgotten story of the Pacific war....more

Aug 19 2019

Image: The Medals of Honor awarded by each of the three branches of the U.S. military, and are, from left to right, the Army, Coast Guard/Navy/Marine Corps and Air Force. Public domain..."Medal of Honor: The History." Ed Hooper. https://www.amazon.com/Medal-Honor-History-Gary-Sinise/dp/B00VHJK6KM
Narrated by Gary Sinise, this documentary showcases the medal itself and how it rose from a decoration no one wanted to become the nation's highest honor. Featuring interviews with service branch historians and the U.S. Senate historian, the film illustrates how a medal is created at the mint. This is the first time a history of the medal has been assembled anywhere.
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/04/02/ed-hooper-iconic-medal-honor-discovered-arkansas/99790776/
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Aug 18 2019

Image: Balaam and the Ass, a 1626 painting by Rembrandt van RIjn, dating from his time in Leiden and now in the Musée Cognacq-Jay in Paris. It portrays the biblical account of the talking ass debating with the diviner Balaam. Public domain.
Indiana Hoenlein and the Lost Gambler's Curse on a Horse Race. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter “The curse calls upon the angel who stands before Balaam’s ass to block the horses of the opposing team.” “Additionally, because the spells cost money — one would need to pay a scribe or magician to inscribe them on sheets of gold, silver or lead — it also teaches us that their use potentially stretched to the more elite members of society. Taken together, this dispels the notion that the magic was used primarily by poor, uneducated women.".. .. .. Ancient Jewish gambler’s chariot race curse found in decoded 5th Century scrollA nailed-shut amulet uncovered in Turkey in the 1930s, written in Jewish Aramaic and newly translated, pleads for help from Balaam’s ass at the trackhttps://www.timesofisrael.com/newly-decoded-5th-cent-curse-scroll-shows-jews-used-magic-to-play-the-ponies/ When a typical nailed-shut 5th century curse scroll was uncovered by the University of Princeton in a 1930s excavation under the hippodrome in the city of Antioch (now in Turkey), the team of archaeologists didn’t realize what a unique find they had in hand. It would take almost another 90 years to discover that the amulet, made of thin lead, is the only known example of a curse written by Jews against a chariot horse racing competitor. In the curse, written in a Jewish dialect of Aramaic in Hebrew lettering, the gambler beseeches God and his panoply of angels to thwart the competing horse and cause him to “drown in the mud,” said Tel Aviv University doctoral student Rivka Elitzur-Leiman, who recently deciphered the miniature 8.8 x 2.1 cm lead tablet. Horse racing at the time had the emotional involvement and popularity of soccer today, explains Elitzur-Leiman. The doctoral student was tapped to decipher this scroll because she is studying Jewish magical amulets — for protection or curse — from the 4th-7th centuries for her dissertation. She said it was another piece of a growing body of evidence for the long and rich tradition of magical use by Jews of the era.
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Aug 18 2019

1/4 Why Science Does Not Disprove God ; Amir Aczel (author), Grover Gardner (narrator), HarperAudio (publisher)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IA68UCG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i3
Image: Clerks studying astronomy and geometry (France, early 15th century). Landscape with clerks studying astronomy and geometry, showing an armillary sphere, square, compasses, etc. Title of Book: La Vraye Histoire du Bon Roy Alixandre (The Alexander Romance in Old French prose). [ BL Royal MS 20 B XX ] Author of the book: Pseudo-Callisthenes Produced in: France; early 15th century Language: French. Permissions: public domain.
Why Science Does Not Disprove God Amir Aczel. The renowned science writer, mathematician, and best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theorem masterfully refutes the overrea
ching claims of the "New Atheists," providing millions of educated believers with a clear, engaging explanation of what science really says, how there's still much space for the Divine in the universe, and why faith in both God and empirical science are not mutually exclusive.
A highly publicized coterie of scientists and thinkers, including Richard Dawkins, the late Christopher Hitchens, and Lawrence Krauss, have vehemently contended that breakthroughs in modern science have disproven the existence of God, asserting that we must accept that the creation of the universe came out of nothing, that religion is evil, that evolution fully explains the dazzling complexity of life, and more. In this much-needed audiobook, science journalist Amir Aczel profoundly disagrees and conclusively demonstrates that science has not, as yet, provided any definitive proof refuting the existence of God.
Why Science Does Not Disprove God is his brilliant and incisive analyses of the theories and findings of such titans as Albert Einstein, Roger Penrose, Alan Guth, and Charles Darwin, all of whose major breakthroughs leave open the possibility - and even the strong likelihood - of a Creator. Bolstering his argument, Aczel lucidly discourses on arcane aspects of physics to reveal how quantum theory, the anthropic principle, the fine-tuned dance of protons and quarks, the existence of anti-matter, and the theory of parallel universes, also fail to disprove God.
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Aug 18 2019

2/4 Why Science Does Not Disprove God Amir Aczel (author), Grover Gardner (narrator), HarperAudio (publisher)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IA68UCG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i3
Image: Religious symbols from the top nine organized faiths of the world according to Major world religions From left to right: 1st Row: Christian Cross, Jewish Star of David, Hindu Aumkar ; 2d Row: Islamic Star and crescent, Buddhist Wheel of Dharma, Shinto Torii ; 3d Row: Sikh Khanda, Bahá'í star, Jain Ahimsa Symbol
Why Science Does Not Disprove God Amir Aczel. The renowned science writer, mathematician, and best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theorem masterfully refutes the overreaching claims of the "New Atheists," providing millions of educated believers with a clear, engaging explanation of what science really says, how there's still much space for the Divine in the universe, and why faith in both God and empirical science are not mutually exclusive.
A highly publicized coterie of scientists and thinkers, including Richard Dawkins, the late Christopher Hitchens, and Lawrence Krauss, have vehemently contended that breakthroughs in modern science have disproven the existence of God, asserting that we must accept that the creation of the universe came out of nothing, that religion is evil, that evolution fully explains the dazzling complexity of life, and more. In this much-needed audiobook, science journalist Amir Aczel profoundly disagrees and conclusively demonstrates that science has not, as yet, provided any definitive proof refuting the existence of God.
Why Science Does Not Disprove God is his brilliant and incisive analyses of the theories and findings of such titans as Albert Einstein, Roger Penrose, Alan Guth, and Charles Darwin, all of whose major breakthroughs leave open the possibility - and even the strong likelihood - of a Creator. Bolstering his argument, Aczel lucidly discourses on arcane aspects of physics to reveal how quantum theory, the anthropic principle, the fine-tuned dance of protons and quarks, the existence of anti-matter, and the theory of parallel universes, also fail to disprove God.
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Aug 18 2019

3/4 Why Science Does Not Disprove God Amir Aczel (author), Grover Gardner (narrator), HarperAudio (publisher) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IA68UCG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i3
Image: Atheist Bus Campaign creator Ariane Sherine and Richard Dawkins at its launch in London; 6 January 2009: creator: Zoe Margoli
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Why Science Does Not Disprove God Amir Aczel. The renowned science writer, mathematician, and best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theorem masterfully refutes the overreaching claims of the "New Atheists," providing millions of educated believers with a clear, engaging explanation of what science really says, how there's still much space for the Divine in the universe, and why faith in both God and empirical science are not mutually exclusive.
A highly publicized coterie of scientists and thinkers, including Richard Dawkins, the late Christopher Hitchens, and Lawrence Krauss, have vehemently contended that breakthroughs in modern science have disproven the existence of God, asserting that we must accept that the creation of the universe came out of nothing, that religion is evil, that evolution fully explains the dazzling complexity of life, and more. In this much-needed audiobook, science journalist Amir Aczel profoundly disagrees and conclusively demonstrates that science has not, as yet, provided any definitive proof refuting the existence of God.
Why Science Does Not Disprove God is his brilliant and incisive analyses of the theories and findings of such titans as Albert Einstein, Roger Penrose, Alan Guth, and Charles Darwin, all of whose major breakthroughs leave open the possibility - and even the strong likelihood - of a Creator. Bolstering his argument, Aczel lucidly discourses on arcane aspects of physics to reveal how quantum theory, the anthropic principle, the fine-tuned dance of protons and quarks, the existence of anti-matter, and the theory of parallel universes, also fail to disprove God.
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Why Science Does Not Disprove God Amir Aczel. The renowned science writer, mathematician, and best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theorem masterfully refutes the overreaching claims of the "New Atheists," providing millions of educated believers with a clear, engaging explanation of what science really says, how there's still much space for the Divine in the universe, and why faith in both God and empirical science are not mutually exclusive. A highly publicized coterie of scientists and thinkers, including Richard Dawkins, the late Christopher Hitchens, and Lawrence Krauss, have vehemently contended that breakthroughs in modern science have disproven the existence of God, asserting that we must accept that the creation of the universe came out of nothing, that religion is evil, that evolution fully explains the dazzling complexity of life, and more. In this much-needed audiobook, science journalist Amir Aczel profoundly disagrees and conclusively demonstrates that science has not, as yet, provided any definitive proof refuting the existence of God. Why Science Does Not Disprove God is his brilliant and incisive analyses of the theories and findings of such titans as Albert Einstein, Roger Penrose, Alan Guth, and Charles Darwin, all of whose major breakthroughs leave open the possibility - and even the strong likelihood - of a Creator. Bolstering his argument, Aczel lucidly discourses on arcane aspects of physics to reveal how quantum theory, the anthropic principle, the fine-tuned dance of protons and quarks, the existence of anti-matter, and the theory of parallel universes, also fail to disprove God.
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Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils Unabridged. Lydia Pyne (Author), Randye Kaye (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher).. .. .. Image: Nederlands: Lucy - Australopithecus afarensis reconstruction in Museon Den Haag, by Ellywa, 29 January 2018 This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. / You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work -- Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use... .. ..
Lucy is the common name of AL 288-1, several hundred pieces of bone fossils representing 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis. In Ethiopia, the assembly is also known as Dinkinesh, which means "you are marvelous" in the Amharic language. Lucy was discovered in 1974 in Africa, near the village Hadar in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia, by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Yves Coppens and Maurice Taïeb..
Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils Unabridged. Lydia Pyne (Author), Randye Kaye (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) Over the last century, the search for human ancestors has spanned four continents and resulted in the discovery of hundreds of fossils. While most of these discoveries live quietly in museums, there are a few that have become world-renowned celebrity personas. In Seven Skeletons, historian of science Lydia Pyne explores how seven such famous fossils of our ancestors have the social cachet they enjoy today. Drawing from archives, museums, and interviews, Pyne builds a cultural history for each celebrity fossil. These seven include the three-foot-tall "hobbit" from Flores, the Neanderthal of La Chapelle, the Taung Child, the Piltdown Man hoax, Peking Man, Australopithecus sediba, and Lucy - all vivid examples of how discoveries of our ancestors have been received, remembered, and immortalized. With wit and insight, Pyne brings to life each fossil: how it is described, put on display, and shared among scientific communities and the broader public. This fascinating, endlessly entertaining book puts the impact of paleoanthropology into new context, a reminder of how our past as a species continues to affect, in astounding ways, our present culture and imagination.
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Image: Forensic facial reconstruction of Homo erectus pekinensis [Peking Man] by Cicero Moraes. Permission: This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. Wikimedia has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an OTRS member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2017120810000716...
Peking Man (CCP Chinese characters: 北京猿人; pinyin: Běijīng Yuánrén), Homo erectus pekinensis (formerly known by the junior synonym Sinanthropus pekinensis), is an example of Homo erectus. Discovered in 1923–27 during excavations at Zhoukoudian (Chou K'ou-tien) near Beijing (written "Peking" before the adoption of the Pinyin romanization system), China, in 2009 this group of fossil specimens dated from roughly 750,000 years ago, and a new 26Al/10Be dating suggests they are in the range of 680,000–780,000 years old..
Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils Unabridged. Lydia Pyne (Author), Randye Kaye (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) Over the last century, the search for human ancestors has spanned four continents and resulted in the discovery of hundreds of fossils. While most of these discoveries live quietly in museums, there are a few that have become world-renowned celebrity personas. In Seven Skeletons, historian of science Lydia Pyne explores how seven such famous fossils of our ancestors have the social cachet they enjoy today. Drawing from archives, museums, and interviews, Pyne builds a cultural history for each celebrity fossil. These seven include the three-foot-tall "hobbit" from Flores, the Neanderthal of La Chapelle, the Taung Child, the Piltdown Man hoax, Peking Man, Australopithecus sediba, and Lucy - all vivid examples of how discoveries of our ancestors have been received, remembered, and immortalized. With wit and insight, Pyne brings to life each fossil: how it is described, put on display, and shared among scientific communities and the broader public. This fascinating, endlessly entertaining book puts the impact of paleoanthropology into new context, a reminder of how our past as a species continues to affect, in astounding ways, our present culture and imagination.
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Image: Taung child – Recovering the missing parts of skull by Arc-Team, Antrocon NPO, Cicero Moraes, University of Padua. The Taung skull is in repository at the University of Witwatersrand. Dean Falk, a specialist in brain evolution, has called it "the most important anthropological fossil of the twentieth century." Permissions: This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. Wikimedia has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an OTRS member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2017120810000716... The Taung Child (or Taung Baby) is the fossilised skull of a young Australopithecus africanus. It was discovered in 1924 by quarrymen working for the Northern Lime Company in Taung, South Africa. Raymond Dart described it as a new species in the journal Nature in 1925. This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. Wikimedia has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an OTRS member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2017120810000716..Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils Unabridged. Lydia Pyne (Author), Randye Kaye (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)
Over the last century, the search for human ancestors has spanned four continents and resulted in the discovery of hundreds of fossils. While most of these discoveries live quietly in museums, there are a few that have become world-renowned celebrity personas. In Seven Skeletons, historian of science Lydia Pyne explores how seven such famous fossils of our ancestors have the social cachet they enjoy today.
Drawing from archives, museums, and interviews, Pyne builds a cultural history for each celebrity fossil. These seven include the three-foot-tall "hobbit" from Flores, the Neanderthal of La Chapelle, the Taung Child, the Piltdown Man hoax, Peking Man, Australopithecus sediba, and Lucy - all vivid examples of how discoveries of our ancestors have been received, remembered, and immortalized. With wit and insight, Pyne brings to life each fossil: how it is described, put on display, and shared among scientific communities and the broader public. This fascinating, endlessly entertaining book puts the impact of paleoanthropology into new context, a reminder of how our past as a species continues to affect, in astounding ways, our present culture and imagination.
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Engraving: A 1913 reconstruction of Piltdown Man, "Eoanthropus dawsoni." Public domain..The Piltdown Man was a paleoanthropological hoax in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilised remains of a previously unknown early human. The inauthenticity of the hoax was described in 1953. An extensive scientific review in 2016 established that the amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson was its likely perpetrator. In 1912, Charles Dawson claimed that he had discovered the "missing link" between ape and man. In February 1912, Dawson contacted Arthur Smith Woodward, Keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museum, . . . ..
Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils Unabridged. Lydia Pyne (Author), Randye Kaye (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) Over the last century, the search for human ancestors has spanned four continents and resulted in the discovery of hundreds of fossils. While most of these discoveries live quietly in museums, there are a few that have become world-renowned celebrity personas. In Seven Skeletons, historian of science Lydia Pyne explores how seven such famous fossils of our ancestors have the social cachet they enjoy today. Drawing from archives, museums, and interviews, Pyne builds a cultural history for each celebrity fossil. These seven include the three-foot-tall "hobbit" from Flores, the Neanderthal of La Chapelle, the Taung Child, the Piltdown Man hoax, Peking Man, Australopithecus sediba, and Lucy - all vivid examples of how discoveries of our ancestors have been received, remembered, and immortalized. With wit and insight, Pyne brings to life each fossil: how it is described, put on display, and shared among scientific communities and the broader public. This fascinating, endlessly entertaining book puts the impact of paleoanthropology into new context, a reminder of how our past as a species continues to affect, in astounding ways, our present culture and imagination.
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Aug 18 2019

Photo: Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser spacecraft arrives by truck at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, located on Edwards Air Force Base. The spacecraft will undergo several months of testing in preparation for its approach and landing flight on the base’s 22L runway. The test series is part of a developmental space act agreement SNC has with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program and will help SNC validate aerodynamic properties, flight software and control system performance. The Dream Chaser is also being prepared to deliver cargo to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract beginning in 2019. The cargo Dream Chaser will fly at least six delivery missions to and from the space station by 2024.https://images.nasa.gov/
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http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRescuing Dream Chaser. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/dream-chaser-to-launch-on-ulas-vulcan-rocket/
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Photo: A detailed view of the beam-steering mechanism and some antennas. The triangular platform at the top is fixed, and the azimuth arm rotates beneath it. To the left is the Gregorian sub-reflector, and to the right is the 96-foot-long (29 m) line feed tuned to 430 MHz. Just visible at the upper right is part of the rectangular waveguide that brings the 2.5 MW 430 MHz radar transmitter's signal up to the focal region.Alessandro Cai (OliverZena) - own work
Closeup of the feed antenna of the Arecibo Radio Telescope, at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. The dish reflector of the telescope is built into a valley in the landscape, and the feed antenna is suspended by cables above it. Since the reflector can't be moved, the telescope is steered to point at different regions of the sky by moving the feed antenna (in bell shaped dome) along on a curving track. The dome shields the feed antenna from interfering radio signals.
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Aug 18 2019

Photo: A battle map of Operation Wonsan.United States Navy - http://www.usnavy.mil
The Clearance of Wonsan Harbor map, a United Nations naval operation to clear sea mine fields off Wonsan, North Korea in 1950 during the korean War.
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http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowFriendship across the Seas: 1 of 4: The US Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Paperback – 2019. by Agawa Naoyuki (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Friendship-across-Japan-Maritime-Self-Defense/dp/4866580550/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=agawa+friendship&amp;qid=1566089763&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1This book describes the history of the relationship between the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), the heir to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and the United States Navy (US Navy). The two navies fought each other fiercely on the seas and in the air during the Pacific War. Each found the other a formidable enemy. They came to respect each other in action. Soon after the war, when the Cold War turned hot, they began to work together as allies. With the generous assistance of the US Navy, the JMSDF was established as its counterpart. Doing so was in their respective national interests, but many individual officers and sailors on both sides had mixed feelings about working with their former enemies. Over the years, however, these two navies have gradually built strong ties, with respect for and trust in each other. This was made possible by conducting countless joint operations at sea. Leaders of the US Navy began to realize that this small maritime force, its actions being restrained in so many ways by domestic politics as well as constitutional and legal limitations, does its job well, is reliable, and can be fully trusted. The JMSDF realized that, in the Asia/Pacific region, there was no other navy with which it shares common interests and values to be allied with. Close to seventy years of accumulated shared experiences have transformed an initially timid and unbalanced relationship into one of, if not the, most successful navy-tonavy partnership in the world. The maritime alliance between Japan and the United States today is anchored in this history. Numerous admirals, officers, and sailors of the two navies working together have greatly contributed to the stability and prosperity of the Asia/Pacific region for the past seventy years. They are not Nimitzes or Yamamotos, but are nevertheless heroes who toiled hard to bring about this unique friendship across the seas....more

Aug 18 2019

Photo: Admiral Burke (middle) watching flight of Mercury-Redstone 3 with President Kennedy, Vice President Johnson, Jackie Kennedy, and Arthur Schlesinger in the White House Office of the President's Secretary, May 5, 1961.
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Watching flight of Astronaut Shepard on television. Left to right: Vice President Lyndon Johnson, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Admiral Arleigh Burke, President Kennedy, Mrs. Kennedy. White House, Office of the President's Secretary.
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http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowFriendship across the Seas: 2 of 4: The US Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Paperback – 2019. by Agawa Naoyuki (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Friendship-across-Japan-Maritime-Self-Defense/dp/4866580550/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=agawa+friendship&amp;qid=1566089763&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1This book describes the history of the relationship between the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), the heir to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and the United States Navy (US Navy). The two navies fought each other fiercely on the seas and in the air during the Pacific War. Each found the other a formidable enemy. They came to respect each other in action. Soon after the war, when the Cold War turned hot, they began to work together as allies. With the generous assistance of the US Navy, the JMSDF was established as its counterpart. Doing so was in their respective national interests, but many individual officers and sailors on both sides had mixed feelings about working with their former enemies. Over the years, however, these two navies have gradually built strong ties, with respect for and trust in each other. This was made possible by conducting countless joint operations at sea. Leaders of the US Navy began to realize that this small maritime force, its actions being restrained in so many ways by domestic politics as well as constitutional and legal limitations, does its job well, is reliable, and can be fully trusted. The JMSDF realized that, in the Asia/Pacific region, there was no other navy with which it shares common interests and values to be allied with. Close to seventy years of accumulated shared experiences have transformed an initially timid and unbalanced relationship into one of, if not the, most successful navy-tonavy partnership in the world. The maritime alliance between Japan and the United States today is anchored in this history. Numerous admirals, officers, and sailors of the two navies working together have greatly contributed to the stability and prosperity of the Asia/Pacific region for the past seventy years. They are not Nimitzes or Yamamotos, but are nevertheless heroes who toiled hard to bring about this unique friendship across the seas....more

Aug 18 2019

Photo: Landsat satellite picture of Port of Yokosuka
Tdk at Japanese Wikipedia - この画像には、ランドサット衛星画像が用いられています。これは、メリーランド大学 / Global Land Cover Facility 所蔵のデータにより、カシミール3Dにより画像化したものです。
横須賀港のランドサット画像。2000年および2001年に撮影されたもの。
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http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowFriendship across the Seas: 3 of 4: The US Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Paperback – 2019. by Agawa Naoyuki (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Friendship-across-Japan-Maritime-Self-Defense/dp/4866580550/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=agawa+friendship&amp;qid=1566089763&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1This book describes the history of the relationship between the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), the heir to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and the United States Navy (US Navy). The two navies fought each other fiercely on the seas and in the air during the Pacific War. Each found the other a formidable enemy. They came to respect each other in action. Soon after the war, when the Cold War turned hot, they began to work together as allies. With the generous assistance of the US Navy, the JMSDF was established as its counterpart. Doing so was in their respective national interests, but many individual officers and sailors on both sides had mixed feelings about working with their former enemies. Over the years, however, these two navies have gradually built strong ties, with respect for and trust in each other. This was made possible by conducting countless joint operations at sea. Leaders of the US Navy began to realize that this small maritime force, its actions being restrained in so many ways by domestic politics as well as constitutional and legal limitations, does its job well, is reliable, and can be fully trusted. The JMSDF realized that, in the Asia/Pacific region, there was no other navy with which it shares common interests and values to be allied with. Close to seventy years of accumulated shared experiences have transformed an initially timid and unbalanced relationship into one of, if not the, most successful navy-tonavy partnership in the world. The maritime alliance between Japan and the United States today is anchored in this history. Numerous admirals, officers, and sailors of the two navies working together have greatly contributed to the stability and prosperity of the Asia/Pacific region for the past seventy years. They are not Nimitzes or Yamamotos, but are nevertheless heroes who toiled hard to bring about this unique friendship across the seas....more

Aug 18 2019

Photo: Arabian Sea on November 22, 2006 - The Japanese fast combat support ship JS Mashu (left) conducts a replenishment at sea (RAS) with the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio
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Arabian Sea (Nov. 22, 2006) - The Japanese fast combat support ship JDS Mashu (AOE 425)conducts a replenishment at sea (RAS) with the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio (CG 68). Mashu is conducting the replenishment of fuel and ammunition for ships in order to conduct long-range fleet operations. U.S. Navy photo by Aviation Warfare Systems Operator 3rd Class Shawn Cossins (RELEASED)
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http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowFriendship across the Seas: 4 of 4: The US Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Paperback – 2019. by Agawa Naoyuki (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Friendship-across-Japan-Maritime-Self-Defense/dp/4866580550/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=agawa+friendship&amp;qid=1566089763&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1This book describes the history of the relationship between the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), the heir to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and the United States Navy (US Navy). The two navies fought each other fiercely on the seas and in the air during the Pacific War. Each found the other a formidable enemy. They came to respect each other in action. Soon after the war, when the Cold War turned hot, they began to work together as allies. With the generous assistance of the US Navy, the JMSDF was established as its counterpart. Doing so was in their respective national interests, but many individual officers and sailors on both sides had mixed feelings about working with their former enemies. Over the years, however, these two navies have gradually built strong ties, with respect for and trust in each other. This was made possible by conducting countless joint operations at sea. Leaders of the US Navy began to realize that this small maritime force, its actions being restrained in so many ways by domestic politics as well as constitutional and legal limitations, does its job well, is reliable, and can be fully trusted. The JMSDF realized that, in the Asia/Pacific region, there was no other navy with which it shares common interests and values to be allied with. Close to seventy years of accumulated shared experiences have transformed an initially timid and unbalanced relationship into one of, if not the, most successful navy-tonavy partnership in the world. The maritime alliance between Japan and the United States today is anchored in this history. Numerous admirals, officers, and sailors of the two navies working together have greatly contributed to the stability and prosperity of the Asia/Pacific region for the past seventy years. They are not Nimitzes or Yamamotos, but are nevertheless heroes who toiled hard to bring about this unique friendship across the seas....more

Aug 17 2019

Image: New York City streets in 1890. Besides telegraph lines, multiple electric lines were required for each class of device requiring different voltages. Public domain. Book of Old New York. Henry Collins Brown. 1913. Defense and Strategic Planning Challenges in an Entirely New Age (1 of 2)
Trends in geopolitical, economic, and technological developments increasingly need to be viewed within a global context. The age of stovepiping, which worked during much of the Cold War, cannot be expected to work now, or through the coming decades. Everything is connected.
Analysis. By Gregory R. Copley, Editor , GIS/Defense &amp; Foreign Affairs. Defense and strategic policy planning officials around the world are beginning to comprehend that the types of threats and opportunities likely to arise in the coming few decades have little in common with the threats, opportunities, and contextual priorities which evolved during the 20th Century.
That is not to say that there are no lessons to be learned from the past, that strategic principles have changed, or that there is no continuity whatsoever between the recent past and our immediate future. But some things have already profoundly changed, or will soon change, and, as a result, it is necessary to see where the balance of thinking and budgets should go in addressing future threats and context as opposed to funding evolving legacy technologies, doctrines, and alliance structures.
Because of substantially changed global circumstances (with more to come), it is increasingly clear that the tendency of experienced military and policy officials to “fight yesterday’s wars” is more dangerous than usual. On the other hand, the inexperience which youth — especially today’s younger generation — brings to the situation tends to ignore historical lessons substantially, while expecting the security of funding and the availability of resources to be inviolate.
So, it is true: the future is not what it used to be. After at least a century and a half of being able to extrapolate our current trends into expectations of the near future, we can no longer do so.
So what is changing in our global strategic context to make us reconsider whether thinking needs, commensurately, to be changed in geopolitics (transforming the balance of power, and therefore considerations on basing, power projection, etc.), economics, military doctrine, and technology?
1. Changed context: For much of the recent era, from, say, around 1800 until 2000, the strategic context was driven by the direct physical realities of geography, resources, and kinetic power. By the year 2000, or maybe slightly before, the strategic contextual tipped and began to be dominated more by the indirect, intangible power of electricity.
Yes, the fundamentals remained: food, water, and geography were necessary elements of actual survival. But now, for advanced societies to prosper and have power, their wealth and fighting ability became overwhelmingly dependent upon their ability to produce, protect, and project their use of electricity. This applies now to kinetic competition as well as to wealth creation.
Again, the principle driving purpose (or goal) of power projection did not change, which is the need to impose the will of one’s own society on another society and/or its leadership. The contextual difference which emerged, and which became of overriding importance, is that the most important way to impose will is now through the electronic spectrum rather than through marching feet and high explosives.
So areas of greatest threat potential and areas under greatest threat have often become the same: areas of greatest access to electricity.
If nothing else, . . .
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Aug 17 2019

Image: Population density (people per km2) map of the world in 1994. In relation to the equator it is seen that the vast majority of the human population lives in the Northern Hemisphere, as 67% of the Earth's land area is there. Public domain. (A more recent population density map can be found at http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw/)
Defense and Strategic Planning Challenges in an Entirely New Age (2 of 2)
Analysis. By Gregory R. Copley, Editor , GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs.
Trends in geopolitical, economic, and technological developments increasingly need to be viewed within a global context. The age of stovepiping, which worked during much of the Cold War, cannot be expected to work now, or through the coming decades. Everything is connected.
. . . 2. The changing nature of economics: Population growth, coupled with urbanization, from the end of World War II until today meant two overriding things:
· The rise of consumerism as the most significant driver of economic growth; and
· The rise in real estate asset values because of constantly rising demand.
As a result, modern urban thinking is now driven, almost to the point of visceral paranoia, toward sustaining this model. However, we are now moving toward an end to that model, whether we like it or not, because macro-level population reduction is starting to occur at the same time that balanced societal viability is being threatened by mass urbanization and migration.
What will this population chaos do to the very recent economic model of wealth and credit leveraged against demand for urban real estate? Population quantitative and qualitative reduction would reduce demand for urban real estate and would therefore reduce the consumer-driven creation of cash.
So we are moving gradually from a global economic model which had been based around rising population and rising urbanization to an economic model based on declining population — either in absolute numbers or, because educational and linguistic factors make societies unable to create efficiencies — and therefore declining demand or value of urban real estate. This is neither happening overnight nor with clarity, but the massive inertia is under way.
It has the force of nature. Even if the global population, except Africa and India, declines by 20 percent over the coming two decades or so, then we need to think of economic models being rewritten to accommodate the change from rising market size to static or declining market size.
Right now, the internal wars in most advanced economies are between those, mostly urban people, who insist that the growth model must prevail at all costs, and those which wish to revert to the safety of control of the fundamentals of life: food, water, and shelter. This is at the heart of the urban globalist war with the regional nationalists. And it is this fundamental which drives us to the reality that, for example, internal population schisms in each society — the US, the PRC, or Europe — represent the greatest threats to each of these societies before they consider threats from external powers.
3. The changing nature of technology: The most fundamental change of the past few decades is that we have moved past the tipping point in our dependence on electricity as the driver of everything. Electrification makes urbanization viable at the scale we have achieved; it makes every form of advanced warfare viable and more effective. And it has become the tool of warfare; the weapon of choice.
Just as electricity has become the basis of modern wealth, capability, and scientific advance, so too has it become the basis of weaponizing the new strategic doctrine and framework: Strategic Information Dominance (SID). This framework embraces and permeates the operational tools of cyber warfare, psychological strategic warfare, information warfare, electronic warfare and the various levels of countermeasures, energy weapons and their countermeasures, and all the levels of C4I (command, control, communications, computing, and intelligence). It is therefore the guiding hand in the creation and use of the new generation of kinetic weapons and the application of direct force.
But we must bear in mind that the sole goal of power is the imposition of our will upon an opponent, rival, or friend; and the countervailing ability to resist such an imposition of will upon our own society and leadership.
The US (and the USSR) in the Cold War calculated strength on an ability, particularly with nuclear weapons, to “blast enemies back into the Stone Age”, but, from the perspective of the end of the second decade of the 21st Century, even the use of strategic nuclear weapons would be “so Stone Age”.
As a result, the decision by Boeing to withdraw for the time being from the US Air Force’s Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program to replace the Cold War era Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and their obsolescent nuclear warheads may provide an opportunity for the US to re-think the entire basis of strategic deterrence. ICBM thinking — let alone counter-city nuclear weapons thinking — is now profoundly “old school” in much the same way that manned penetrator bombers and carrier strike groups are “old school”. They represent the legacy systems which we dare not, yet, discard. But we must calculate where, at what cost in manpower, doctrinal, and budgetary terms, they still fit into our spectrum of priorities.
The GBSD has begun as an $85-billion program, and one to which the incoming Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Gen. Mark Milley, has thrown his support. But the US at this moment has the opportunity to weigh whether . . .
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Aug 17 2019

Post: "Gift for the Grangers," 1873 print promoting U.S. farmers' organization. Public domain...The excitement over the language choice of "endangered" or "threatened" in the Endangered Species Act.
https://www.perc.org/2018/04/24/the-road-to-recovery/Brian Yablonski (@BrianYablonski), PERC Exec Dir (@PERCtweets)
The statute provides for the listing of two categories of species: “endangered” species, which are currently at risk of extinction, and “threatened” species, which are at risk of becoming endangered in the foreseeable future. When Congress passed the act in 1973, it envisioned states taking the lead to protect threatened species, with strict federal regulations against “take” reserved for endangered species. In 1975, however, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a regulation extending the take regulation to threatened species too, eliminating the distinction between the two categories.
Take is defined so broadly that it can include activities intended to help species and can complicate state and private efforts to recover species. Under the current approach, landowners who provide habitat to listed species receive no benefit; instead, they are penalized through costly regulatory burdens such as restrictions on land use, reduced property values, and costly permitting requirements.
The Department of the Interior should restore the Endangered Species Act’s distinction between endangered and threatened species, reserving the take prohibition as a backstop to protect endangered species from extinction. If the statute’s distinction between the two categories was restored, states and landowners would be encouraged to recover threatened species before they reach endangered status. A threatened listing would serve as a signal that a species was at risk of becoming endangered, encouraging states, landowners, and other groups to recover the species... .. .. Also: Of the 1,661 species listed as threatened or endangered, only 3 percent have been recovered — paltry even for a government program.
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Aug 17 2019

Photo: Shortly after leaving the Port of Valdez, the Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef. The picture below was taken 3 days after the vessel grounded, just before a storm arrived.http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/photos/exxon/02.html
http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport: Should we punish companies with data breaches like Capital One's the same way we punish companies with oil spills like Exxon's Exxon Valdez? Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE ⁦@ScalaInc⁩https://www.economist.com/business/2019/08/08/the-exxon-valdez-of-cyberspace
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Aug 17 2019

Engraving: Paul Fürst, engraving, c. 1721, of a plague doctor of Marseilles (introduced as 'Dr Beaky of Rome'). His nose-case is filled with herbal material to keep off the plague. [Likely a mixture of strong, antimicrobial aromatics, including clove and cinnamon. –Ed] Public domain.PacWatch: Bubonic Plague Downtown Los Angeles.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/bubonic-plague-may-join-homelessness-rats-on-list-of-crises-in-los-angeles_3035204.html

Aug 17 2019

Photo: The Turkish borders as determined in the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne
Lt.-Col. Lawrence Martin - From: The Treaties of Peace 1919-1923, Vol. II, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, New York, 1924. Compiled by Lt.-Col. Lawrence Martin, Geographer of the Institute of Politics. immediate source: http://www.hri.org/docs/lausanne/turkey.gif
Borders of the Republic of Turkey as determined in 1923.
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http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Syrian Kurds and the uncertain Erdogan regime. Bilal Wahab @WashInstitute Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presBilal Wahab is the Nathan and Esther K. Wagner fellow at The Washington Institute, where he focuses on governance in the Iraqi Kurdish region and in Iraq as a whole. He has taught at the American University of Iraq in Sulaimani, where he established the Center for Development and Natural Resources, a research program on oil and development. He earned his Ph.D. from George Mason University; his M.A. from American University, where he was among the first Iraqis awarded a Fulbright scholarship; and his B.A. from Salahaddin University in Erbil. Along with numerous scholarly articles, he has written extensively in the Arabic and Kurdish media.
Related Articles:
● https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/turkeys-rising-wave-of-social-protests
● https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/growing-anti-syrian-sentiment-in-turkey
● https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/syria-safe-zone-can-help-turkey-come-to-terms-with-the-pkk-and-yp
● https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-07/turkey-s-akar-says-syria-talks-with-u-s-were-positive-anadolu
● https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/turkey-agree-set-syria-safe-zone-operation-centre-190807140235933.html
● https://warontherocks.com/2019/08/the-crisis-is-coming-syria-and-the-end-of-the-u-s-turkish-alliance/
● https://twitter.com/USEmbassyTurkey/status/1159101377764843520/photo/1
● https://sethfrantzman.com/2019/08/07/turkeys-gambit-on-syria-pays-off-as-washington-discusses-peace-corridor/
● https://nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/syria-safe-zone-will-create-more-problems-it-solves-72961
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Aug 16 2019

Photo: Benjamin Hornigold
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http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe New ISIS is the old Pirate Kingdom. Norman Roule, United Against Nuclear Iran. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presNorman Roule is a Senior Advisor to United Against Nuclear Iran and a 34-year veteran of the CIA. Before leaving the intelligence community, Roule served as the National Intelligence Manager for Iran at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence from November 2008 to September 2017. Here he was the principal Intelligence Community official responsible for overseeing all aspects of national intelligence policy and activities related to Iran. Related Articles:● http://www.ilanberman.com/23065/a-resilient-isis-roars-back
● https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/militias-are-threatening-public-safety-in-iraq
● https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/web-of-lebanese-companies-may-be-shipping-iranian-oil-to-syria-1.897168
● https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/11/john-bolton-arrives-in-uk-to-seek-support-on-iran-and-huawei
● https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/15/us-moves-to-block-release-of-iranian-vessel-in-gibraltar
● https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ECBMPCRX4AMKxx8?format=jpg&amp;name=900x900
● https://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/press-releases/chief-ministers-statement-on-the-release-of-the-grace-1-5952019-5187
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Aug 16 2019

Engraving: View of Jerusalem (Conrad Grünenberg, 1487).BDS in Europe. Brooke Goldstein is a New York City-based human rights attorney, and Executive Director of The Lawfare Project.
https://www.thelawfareproject.org/releases/2019/6/14/press-release-lawyers-warn-of-pandoras-box-of-unintended-consequences-after-advocate-general-gives-opinion-in-european-court-of-justice-labeling-case

Aug 16 2019

Photo: Company D, Texas Rangers, at Ysleta in 1894. Captain John Hughes is seated in a chair at the far right. Public domain.
Why is it Beto?https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/beto-orourke-nickname-cynical-political-advantage/

Aug 16 2019

Photo: Boston Public Libraryhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBruce and Nellie Ohr and the parochial oppo research against the Trump presidency by the Obama presidency. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2019/08/14/judicial-watch-finds-documents-showing-fusion-gps-working-directly-with-doj-to-frame-trump-with-ties-to-russia-n2551685

Aug 16 2019

Photo: City of London, Ontaro, Canada. The pioneer period and the London of to-dayYear: 1900 (1900s)Authors: Bremner, Archibald, 1849-Subjects: Publisher: London, Ont. : London Printing & Lithographing Co.Contributing Library: Cornell University LibraryDigitizing Sponsor: MSNView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:H a w h ;« oo ^, ?, fc r&gt; H hj &lt;1 O H Ch H &lt;i ro ti tc h ii » ° KText Appearing After Image:20 CITY OF LONDON, The brow of a hill near a spot where bodieswere interred gives us a mental picture ofthe spot where Elliots creek joins the river,before Siftons Cut had been made for therailway. Some years ago Indian remains -weredug up in the neighborhood of BlackfriarsBridge, and in September, 1895, the skeletonof an Indian maiden, computed to have beenburied about seventy years, was found nearthe Cove Bridge. In the correspondence ofGovernor Simcoe, and in the state papers ofthe period, there are frequent i-eferences tohis plan for establishing the capital of UpperCanada at this jioint, which he proposed tocall Georgiana, in honor of the reigning mon-arch. He went to England, however, on leaveof absence in 1796, and never returned. The fanciful title is derived from the large num-ber of shade trees. There is ground for this,but in reality London was first called theForest City because it was surveyed anddesigned for a city before a tree of the pri-meval forest had been levelled.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe spies of Huawei still have a chance to launch 5G in Canada. Charles Burton, Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at Macdonald-Laurier Institute. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast ...more

Aug 15 2019

Photo: Floor plan of the main floor (now called the State Floor) of the White House in Washington, D.C., in 1900, by Frederick D. Owen of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The plan shows the original floor plan with additions made in 1823, 1826, and 1829.Date | 1900Source | https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/93515761/Author | F. D. Owenhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow
The Plotters Convene, Washington, January 5, 2017: Ball of Collusion: 1 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_books_6?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=TYWTCSM7JP66ERDKPRRS The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite privately assuring Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media–Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?...more

Aug 15 2019

Photo: 1858 - 1900personContributorsWhite House (Washington, D.C.)createSourceNew York Public LibrarylinkLinkhttp://digitalcollections.nypl.org/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain
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John Brennan and GCHQ, Late 2015: Ball of Collusion: 2 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_books_6?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=TYWTCSM7JP66ERDKPRRS The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite privately assuring Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media–Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?...more

Aug 15 2019

Photo: : De drukke rivierbank van de Thames in LondenDate | 1938 PostedSource | Postcard C. F. Castle's Lesco SeriesAuthor | UnknownThis UK artistic work, of which the author is unknown and cannot be ascertained by reasonable enquiry, is in the public domain because it is one of the following:
A photograph, which has never previously been made available to the public (e.g. by publication or display at an exhibition) and which was taken more than 70 years ago (before 1 January 1949); or
A photograph, which was made available to the public (e.g. by publication or display at an exhibition) more than 70 years ago (before 1 January 1949); or
An artistic work other than a photograph (e.g. a painting), which was made available to the public (e.g. by publication or display at an exhibition) more than 70 years ago (before 1 January 1949).
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Joseph Mifsud and George Papadopoulos, London, April 26, 2016: Ball of Collusion: 3 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_books_6?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=TYWTCSM7JP66ERDKPRRS The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite privately assuring Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media–Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?...more

Aug 15 2019

Photo: [London Bridge, London, England] (LOC)[London Bridge, London, England] [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. Notes:Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J--foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905.Print no. "11212".Forms part of: Views of the British Isles, in the Photochrom print collection.Exhibited: "Monet's London : Artists' reflections on the Thames" at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, and other venues, 2005-2006.Taken circa 1890 No known copyright restrictions
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Enter Alexander Down, Bill Priestap and Five Eyes, London,May, 2016: Ball of Collusion: 4 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_books_6?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=TYWTCSM7JP66ERDKPRRS The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite privately assuring Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media–Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?...more

Aug 15 2019

Photo: Moscow Kremlin. Voznesenskaya Square (all demolished)Date | 1900s Source | "Вuilders of Russia. Moscow at the turn of century" ("Строители России. Москва в начале века", M, 2001Author | UnknownPermission(Reusing this file) | | This work is in the public domain in Russia according to article 1256 of Book IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation No. 230-FZ of December 18, 2006 (details).It was published on territory of the Russian Empire (Russian Republic) except for territories of the Grand Duchy of Finland and Congress Poland before 7 November 1917 and wasn't re-published for 30 days following initial publications on the territory of Soviet Russia or any other states.The Russian Federation (early RSFSR, Soviet Russia) is the historical heir but not legal successor of the Russian Empire.If applying, {{PD-Russia-1996}} or {{PD-Russia-expired}} should be used instead of this tag.This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1924.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow
Carter Page and the FISA abuse, Moscow, Cambridge,July 2016: Ball of Collusion: 5 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_books_6?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=TYWTCSM7JP66ERDKPRRS The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite privately assuring Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media–Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?...more

Aug 15 2019

Photo: English: Easter Parade on Fifth Avenue, New York 1900Date | 28 January 2014, 02:43:14Source | http://www.old-picture.com/american-history-1900-1930s/Avenue-Fifth-Yorks-New.htmAuthor | Unknown | This media file is in the public domain in the United States.
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The Trump Tower Provocation, June 9, 2016: Ball of Collusion: 6 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_books_6?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=TYWTCSM7JP66ERDKPRRS The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite privately assuring Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media–Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?...more

Aug 15 2019

Photo: circa 1900-1905, 7th Street NW, east side, looking north from G Street, Washington, D.C. Included in photograph are the Tennille clothing store, the Queen Cafe and L. Baum Manufacturing Jeweler. D.C. Street Survey Collection, Library of Congress; glass negative; plate 13 x 18 cmDate | between circa 1900 and circa 1905 Source | Library of Congress, Call Number: LC-Z7- 37, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014646486/Author | D.C. Street Survey Collection (Library of Congress)
Camera location | 38° 53′ 54.6″ N, 77° 01′ 18.88″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth | Licensing[edit] | This work is in the public domain
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The FBI Insurance Policy, August 15, 2016: Ball of Collusion: 7 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_books_6?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=TYWTCSM7JP66ERDKPRRS The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite privately assuring Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media–Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?...more

Aug 15 2019

Photo: 1900personContributorsUnderwood & Underwood, PublishercreateSourceNew York Public Libraryhttp://digitalcollections.nypl.org/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain
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The Steele Dossier Released, January 10, 2017: Ball of Collusion: 8 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_books_6?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=TYWTCSM7JP66ERDKPRRS The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite privately assuring Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media–Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?...more

Aug 15 2019

Image: Xi JInping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, author of the currently-failing Chinese economy.The Trade War Hits China Where It Hurts Beijing’s doctored data show growth has slowed to 6.2%. The actual rate is almost certainly worse. President Trump’s tariffs and other sanctions are hitting China at a vulnerable moment. The Chinese National Bureau of Statistics reported July 15 that gross domestic product grew by 6.2% in the second quarter, China’s slowest growth since 1992. The actual picture is much cloudier. Beijing has for years cooked the books to make the regime’s performance look better, and they are undoubtedly doing the same now. . . . https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trade-war-hits-china-where-it-hurts-11565552398?mod=searchresults&amp;page=1&amp;pos=1 James Matthes Talent (@JimTalent) is an American politician and former U.S. Senator from Missouri.
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Aug 15 2019

Image: An inverted yield curve; this one, the British pound yield curve on February 9, 2005. / Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; under Creative Commons. The upside-down US and world economieshttps://www.ft.com/content/95c4362e-be79-11e9-b350-db00d509634e

Aug 15 2019

Photo: Image taken from page 17 of 'Twelve Years in China. The People, the Rebels, and the Mandarins. By a British Resident (J. Scarth). With illustrations'Image taken from:
Title: "Twelve Years in China. The People, the Rebels, and the Mandarins. By a British Resident (J. Scarth). With illustrations"
Author: SCARTH, Harry Mingden.
Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10057.c.32."
Page: 17
Place of Publishing: Edinburgh
Date of Publishing: 1860
Issuance: monographic
Identifier: 003266054
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Aug 15 2019

Photo: Kowloon, Hong Kong: military encampments (pic 1 of 6)Description | Kowloon, Hong Kong: military encampments on land and fleets in the bay during the Second China War: panoramic view: section one. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1860.Iconographic CollectionsKeywords: Felice BeatoCredit line | | This file comes from Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom. Refer to Wellcome blog post (archive).This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.References | Library reference: Iconographic Collection 569636iPhoto number: L0067729Full Bibliographic Record: http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1569636Source/Photographer | https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/80/92/1ae5622265f94df0f32c5aa6f67f.jpgGallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0067729.htmlWellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-30): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/yryv6pp4 CC-BY-4.0http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowEmphasis on peaceful protests in Hong Kong. @ChristianWhiton @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast China’s Xi looks increasingly dazed and confused – Could Hong Kong win this showdown?By Christian Whiton Published August 14, 2019It wasn’t supposed to be like this. When Xi Jinping effectively crowned himself emperor at the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress in 2017, consolidating his power by ending a practice of term limits, China was supposed to be ready for its next stage of his meteoric rise.In a triumphal speech, Xi heralded a “new era” of Chinese power and predicted the nation would become a “mighty force” under his control. But as the summer of 2019 drags on, Xi and the government he leads look increasingly weak and lost.China’s economy is in the doldrums, put there in part by President Trump’s decision to change U.S. tactics dramatically in long-running trade disputes. Last month, the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics reported the slowest economic growth since 1992. China’s manufacturing index has indicated contraction for all but two months so far this year.In July, imports fell 5.6% compared to a year before, partly due to less demand for inputs to manufacturing that increasingly is moving out of China. (In the first quarter of this year, foreign investors pumped $10.8 billion into neighboring Vietnam, an increase of 86.2 percent.) China has also nationalized three banks since May with more bailouts expected as its overextended financial system faces extreme risk.A fair assessment of the U.S.-China trade war shows Washington winning the dispute, although not everyone agrees. In his weekly New York Times column titled “China Tries to Teach Trump Economics,” progressive economist Paul Krugman argued that the president, “…vastly overrates his ability to inflict damage on China while underrating the damage China can do in return.”...more

Aug 15 2019

Photo: The Second Opium War 1856-1860Panorama of Hong Kong Harbour.Date | 1860 (Pre-1914)Source | http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//362/media-362488/large.jpg | This is photograph Q 70025 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. | Author | UnknownPermission(Reusing this file) | This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation.Part of | Royal Artillery InstitutionSubjects | Associated placesHong Kong, ChinaCategory | photographsThis work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowXi and Hong Kong rush toward a lose-lose. Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.wsj.com/articles/washington-offers-conflicting-messages-on-hong-kong-unrest-amid-u-s-china-trade-talks-11565802045?mod=hp_lead_pos4
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Aug 15 2019

Painting: Victoria Harbour and Hong Kong Island in the 1860s. Public domain.Hong Kong craves liberty. "Fight for freedom! Stand with Hong Kong!" This was the chant echoing through the arrival hall of Hong Kong's international airport on Tuesday, as thousands of protesters beseeched arriving passengers -- and the world -- for help in their struggle against China's encroaching tyranny. It's a lonely fight, though it shouldn't be. The protesters' demands boil down to profoundly legitimate calls for liberty, justice, and accountable government. . . .
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Aug 15 2019

Photo. In the matter of space parachutes, here’s another: engineers pack the Technology Education Satellite (TechEdSat-5) with the Exo-Brake payload. At almost 4 square feet in cross section, the Exo-Brake is made of Mylar and is controlled by a hybrid system of mechanic struts and flexible cord. Credits: NASA Ames/Dominic Hart
ESA confirms ExoMars parachute test failure. The European Space Agency (ESA) today confirmed earlier stories from last week that the parachutes for its ExoMars 2020 spacecraft had failed during a high altitude drop test on August 5. By Saturday 10 August, the ESA had not confirmed this. It apparently took them a week to write the press release.
This was the second consecutive test failure for these parachutes, as noted in the release. On 28 May this year, the deployment sequence of all four parachutes was tested for the first time from a height of 29 km – released from a stratospheric helium balloon. While the deployment mechanisms activated correctly, and the overall sequence was completed, both main parachute canopies suffered damage. . . .
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Aug 15 2019

Image: What are SmallSats and CubeSats? NASA image; public domain
Capitalism in space: Vector shuts down, loses CEO, might have money issues
Jim Cantrell, who had been the CEO of smallsat rocket company Vector Launch since inception, apparently has left the company.
Vector, a micro-launch company founded in 2016 to build small rockets for payloads of up to 60kg, may be in financial trouble, multiple industry sources told Ars on Friday. A spokeswoman for Vector did not comment on that. However, she did confirm the company has parted ways with its chief executive: “Jim Cantrell is no longer with Vector effective today. John Garvey has assumed the role of CEO.”
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Aug 14 2019

Photo: Travels of a naturalist in northern Europe, Norway, 1871, Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875Year: 1905 (1900s)Authors: Harvie-Brown, J. A. (John Alexander), 1844-1916Subjects: Birds -- Europe, Northern Europe, Northern -- Description and travel Valdres (Norway) -- Description and travelPublisher: London, T. F. UnwinView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:onlyvillage we have seen it in since leaving Vologda Govern-ment. (In Archangel I have omitted to mention that weobserved a few specimens only of the Tree Sparrow.) On the last stage before reaching Pifiega we shot aGreat Spotted Woodpecker, and tried in vain to get at twoSiberian Jays. We found it, however, absolutely imprac-ticable to attempt any work in the woods without snow-shoes, and soon gave up attempting it. At Pinega, which we reached at 2 p.m., we saw twentySamoyede sledges and about eighty Reindeer (at four deerto each sledge). They were from Kahin. We left ourletter for the Ispravnik of Piiiega, as he may possibly beuseful to us on our return journey. Our route to Kuloiskaia, a 34 versts stage, lay princi-pally along the Kuloi River from near its source, onthe right bank, amidst beautiful scenery. A low rangeof what Seebohm recognised as Oolite skirts the river-side, and is covered with weird forest of lichen-coveredlarches and pines and spruce. The tall larches were mosthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: Russia's nuclear-powered fear of First Strike. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/world/europe/russia-nuclear-explosion-accident.html
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Aug 14 2019

Map: First nations of Iowa, 1718 Guillaume Delisle map, showing locations of the Ioway (Aiouez au Pauotez), the Omaha (Maha), the Otoe (Octotata), and the Kaw (Cansez), and the main voyageurtrail (Chemin des voyageurs). Public domain.Biden at the Iowa State Fair.https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2019/08/12/iowa-politics-presidential-candidates-2020-style-contrast-caucus-sanders-warren-harris-buttigieg/1992336001/

Aug 14 2019

Image: Possibly the earliest painting of Hong Kong Island, showing the waterfront settlement which became Victoria City. Public domain.Has Trump already won in China? China has fallen to being our number-three trading partner; how critical is China in our economic outlook?
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Aug 14 2019

Photo: "The workroom at St James's workhouse", from The Microcosm of London (1808)Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827) and Augustus Charles Pugin (1762–1832) (after) John Bluck (fl. 1791–1819), Joseph Constantine Stadler (fl. 1780–1812), Thomas Sutherland (1785–1838), J. Hill, and Harraden (aquatint engravers)[1] - http://www.londonlives.org/static/Workhouses.jsp
Workhouse, St James's Parish: this engraving was published in Pyne, William Henry; Combe, William (1904) [1810] "The Workhouse" in The Microcosm of London or London in Miniature, Volume III, London: Methuen and Company, pp. Plate 96 Retrieved on 13 July 2011.
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Aug 14 2019

Image: Concord grapes cluster; public domainIndiana Hoenlein and the Lost Jewel of the Babylonian Captivity, dating to 587 BCE. Indiana Hoenlein (@Conf_of_Pres)
A cluster of grapes in a golden clasp, found in a layer of ash from the time of the destruction of Jerusalem. Iron Age Jerusalem now thought not to have been a small village but a sprawling city.Also: unique Franz Kafka manuscripts.

Aug 14 2019

Photo: 1978 Iranian revolution - row of men holding khomeini's photosDate | 1978Source | ScanningAuthor | UnknownPermission(Reusing this file) | see below: | This work is now in the public domain
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Aug 14 2019

Photo: The way to KukuanalandH. Rider Haggard - http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/h/haggard/h_rider/king/map.jpg
The Way to Kukuanaland, from King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard.
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Aug 13 2019

Photo: Group of the Amir Shere Ali, Prince Abdullah Jan, & Sirdars. Photograph taken by John Burke in 1869; studio portrait. Public domain.. A Taliban suicide bomber, identified by the terrorist group as "a hero of Islamic Emirate, Mullah Jabbar Logari," leveled a police headquarters in Kabul's Police District District 6. EIghteen dead, 100-plus wounded. The Peace of the Taliban, coming to an Afghan city near you.
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Aug 13 2019

Photo: The History of Marshall County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., a biographical directory of citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion, general and local statistics, portraits of early settlers and prominent men, history of the Northwest, history of Iowa, map of Marshall County, constitution of the United States, miscellaneous matters, etcYear: 1878 (1870s)Au